national crisis
Dire state predicament
A national crisis is an urgent situation threatening a country's stability, security, or well-being—economic collapse, natural disaster, war, or political upheaval.
The term implies severity requiring immediate government response: The president addressed the nation during the national crisis.
Politicians sometimes invoke it to justify emergency measures or rally public support, making the phrase subject to inflation.
- civil unrestPublic disturbance by citizens
- coup d'étatViolent government seizure
- hyperinflationExtreme rapid price escalation
- bank runPanicked mass withdrawal
- earthquakeSeismic ground movement
recession · political corruption · regime change · mass protests · public health emergency · authoritarianism · power vacuum · food insecurity · hurricane · stock market crash · currency devaluation · supply chain collapse · racial tensions · resource scarcity · water shortage · wildfire · refugee influx · nuclear disaster
- Antebellum Americaantebellum era, Compromise of 1850, sectionalism, states' rights, Fugitive Slave Act
national crisisnational stability
Secure, functioning state conditions
peacetime · normalcy · national security · business as usual · status quo
national crisisnational celebration
Country-wide commemorative observance
golden age · national renaissance · national pride · national unity
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