October 24, 1929—this was a day the whole world should remember.
The moment the New York Stock Exchange opened, multiple stocks began to fall. Soon afterward, more and more stocks plunged, and the entire market crashed in an avalanche-like collapse.
All the stock traders were stunned. They had never imagined something like this would happen.
"God! Is this the end of the world?" one stock trader said in anguish. He had invested all the savings of half his life in the stock market. But now, the market's steep decline had directly wiped out all his wealth!
Of course, his was not the only wealth to vanish. Countless others lost their fortunes as well. The entire United States suffered grievous losses because of this stock market crash.
At the same time, the stock collapse triggered a series of problems. Companies began going bankrupt, banks failed, workers lost their jobs, and manufactured goods could not be sold. All of this showed that the United States' era of economic prosperity was gone and would never return.
Next, the entire United States would enter an economic winter.
The economic crisis erupted in the United States before spreading across the world. Europe, Asia, and the Americas were all struck. Europe was now basically controlled by Germany, and the measures the German government had introduced in advance played a certain role in resisting the economic crisis. The Americas and Asia suffered the heaviest blows. The Island Nation in particular had markets flooded everywhere with American goods. Once the economic crisis erupted in the United States, the Island Nation's economy was dealt a crushing blow as well. For the Island Nation, which hoped to restore its military strength and then settle its blood feud with Germany, this was undoubtedly adding frost to snow. In order to scrape