The Alaskan oil strike of 1937 was one of the most devastating economic episodes and a pivotal moment in Alaskan history, in which almost three-fourths of the nation's petroleum and gas workers went on strike for twenty-seven days in late September and early October, crippling the national economy and bringing the national boom of the past seven and a half years to a halt, and causing skyrocketing gas and heating shortages throughout the country, and was the first time in the 20th century in which organized popular discontent was able to force major concessions from the Alaskan government and topple a sitting regime.