Great Depression Flashcards
Union Nationale and Response
Leader: Maurice Duplessis
Response: Blamed eng ownership, wanted quebec to be controlled by quebec (french nationalism)
Conservatives and Response
Leader: R.B Bennett
Response: Unemployment relief act (to solve depression):
Wanted to put everyone back to work?
Liberals and Response
Leader: William Lyon Mackenzie King
Response: Thought that it was the responsibility of the provinces to aid their own citizens. King wasn’t prepared and didn’t take an interventionist approach to the economy. Criticized as he said he wouldn’t give “a five cent piece” to those with a conservative government (as he was liberal).
CCF and Response
Leader: J.S. Woodsworth
Response: Wanted to dismantle the free enterprise economic system, which they believed caused the depression. Good in which the government has all control, bad in which the people have no opinion on how their area wants to be run. Socialism
Social Credit and Response
Leader: William Aberhart
Response: Believed that the Depression would end if people had money to spend. Gave $25 certificates per month.
On to ottawa / regina riot
A defining event of the Great Depression, the On-to-Ottawa Trek has become a poignant symbol of working class protest. In 1935, over a thousand angry unemployed men left federal relief camps in British Columbia and boarded boxcars to take their demand for work and wages directly to Ottawa.
July 1, 1935 = Regina riot
Fascism vs Communism
Fascism: Ex. Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler
Right-wing, totalitarian
Communism: Ex, Joseph Stalin
Left-wing, authoritarian, “classless society”
State ownership/control of all production (no private ownership)
Factors leading to the Great Depression
Trigger = Stock Market Crash > Black Tuesday (October 29, 1929)
Long-term Causes = Buying on credit, overproduction, dependence on US
Riding the Rails / Regina Riot (More)
Unemployed men left the city to find work, they were “riding the rails” (illegally riding on freight trains). Relief camps were set up as the men were upsetting local residents, they were set up in wilderness and had terrible conditions (paid very little, tough life).
1935 - Relief camp workers protested and tried to go to Ottawa to talk to Prime Minister R. B. Bennett, but were stopped in Regina (July 1st) and many were injured/one officer killed
