The Great Depression (GUEST LECTURER: STEFAN NIELSEN)
Background: The United States
“on margin”
October 1929 Stock Market Crash
-October 24 “Black Thursday”
-October 28 & 29: Black Monday and Tuesday
contemporary explanations
Effects in the United States
Hawley Smoot Tariff (1930)
Herbert Hoover (president 1929-1933)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt “FDR” (president 1933-1945)
New Deal
Canada
‘Dust Bowl’
Mackenzie King (PM 1921-1930, 1935-1948)
R.B. Bennet (1930-1935)
‘Bible Bill’ Aberhart (Premier of Alberta, 1935 and 1943)
Maurice Duplessis (Premier of Quebec, 1936 to 1939 and 1944 to 1959)
Union Nationale
Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF)
What of the rest of the world?
Japan
Europe
1924 Dawes Plan
Sir Oswald Mosley (1896-1980)
British Union of Fascists
ASIAN NATIONALISM
I. Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925) in China
United League
Revolution of 1911
May Fourth Movement
Kuomintang
Three Principles of the People
II. Mahatma Gandhi (1869-48) in India
satyagraha
Indian National Congress
Mountbatten Plan (June 3, 1947)
III. Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk) (1881–1938) in Turkey
Young Turks
National Pact
Grand National Assembly (GNA)
“Six Arrows”: republicanism, nationalism, populism, statism, secularism, and revolution