NationStates Jolt Archive

What are the first three words that come to your mind when you think of this decade?

Capone, Mafia, Credit

I
Am
YOU!

Man there are a lot of these tonite, i guess...

Babe
Depression
Grandparents

Flappers, speakeasy, gatsby

Flappers, speakeasy, gatsby
Gatsby....THAT'S the guy I was trying to remember....damn I hate that book.

Poor, starving people.

Poor, starving people.
That's the 30s Enodscopia. The crash happened in October '29

Stock market crash

Man there are a lot of these tonite, i guess...

Babe
Depression
Grandparents
2 and half months of the depression happened during the 20s...

Hyperinflation
Ruhr
Depression.

2 and half months of the depression happened during the 20s...
Still, we were asked for the first three words that came to us.

Not the three big things that happened in the 20's.

As long as you understand. It seems like most people think the depression happened during the 20s.

As long as you understand. It seems like most people think the depression happened during the 20s.
It depends what you mean by depression.

When I said it, I had Germany in mind (during hyperinflation)

It depends what you mean by depression.

When I said it, I had Germany in mind (during hyperinflation)
That's true...now that you bring that up, Germany and Italy were in depressions...the rest of the Europe went with us.

That's true...now that you bring that up, Germany and Italy were in depressions...the rest of the Europe went with us.
Not really, Stresemann became chancellor in 1923, recalled all the Reichsmarks (iirc) and replaced them with Rentenmark (back by American gold) and in 1924 the Dawes plan was introduced.

Also, Hitler hated the stablised economy because people were less likely to feel like the Weimar REpublic useless and become more likely to support extremist parties.

That was until The depression of course.

Coolidge, Roaring Twenties