The Great Depression and Global Politics

Responding to the Depression/ Politics of Protest/ Mackenzie King and RB Bennett/The Depression and Global Politics The government drew on huge amount of money prompting the employment and economy and created many irrigation programs on the farm land in Prairie. Many Relief Camps were established for people's living and working, but the wages per day were only 20 cents. The food and health were also terrible during that time. The terrible lives and low wages in Relief Camps during the Depression time makes many unemployed workers went to Ottawa to protest their actuality, which was called "On-to-Ottawa Trek". However, Bennett ordered the RCMP to stop the workers' advances in Regina eventually. During the Depression time, Bennett's government was trying to embark on a program of reform, which strengthened the government controlling economy, but finally failed. After Bennett's leaving office, Mackenzie King went up. He signed the trade agreement with the States, for developing international trading, and it achieved the success. During the Depression time, the Soviet Union started carrying the Planned Economy, Everything about the economy is controlled by the totalitarian government. Nazi Germany also accepted the policy which is similar as the Roosevelt's New Deal, to have a lot Infrastructures. At that time, the Fascism and the Totalitarian started rising up. The Soviet Union achieved the industrialization.