Canada 1930-1940

After Canada in 1926 was explained by the autonomous Imperial Conference, followed in 1931 due to the independence, the Statute of Westminster. It was also the British Commonwealth (= Commonwealth), in which the former colonies of Great Britain were represented. ==The crisis[ Edit] == On the Ottawa Imperial Conference in 1932 were measures to combat the economic crisis of 1929. With those measures were motivated by the fact that Europe is gradually recovering from the first world war, making the sales market of Canada strongly altered somewhat. For the crisis was a third of the gross national product taken by the export of grain, pulp and paper, minerals and finished products. The price of the grain broke down and Canada was also plagued by droughts, leaving no profit could be made by the country to edit more. Later, in 1937, also faced an invasion of locusts that Canada would be the crisis in hand worked.

The Conservative Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett (1930-1935) failed to avert the crisis, so that unemployment doubled between 1930 and 1936, while the average annual income halved. On 23 October 1935 the Liberal Party came to power and so was William Mackenzie King Prime Minister of Canada. He held that position, remember when on 1 september 1939 the Second World War broke out, leaving his plans to the crisis, had to be postponed. ==Canada in the second world war[ Edit] == On 10 september 1939 Germany got a declaration of war by Canada, that itself by its membership of the Commonwealth was in the camp of the allies . The crisis prevented the allies from Canada, however, to provide full support.

Before the war, in June 1939, Canada had only a small standing army, but in the end Canada mobilized about a million men. By the sudden increase in the number of troops the army was not sufficiently equipped.

The grip of Germany on Poland was strengthened and also the Soviet Union after the country was invaded, gave Poland surrendered. Because the allies had to prepare for the war, the fighting remained limited at this time. The media spoke as a "Sitzkrieg" or "Phoney War", which is actually "Phony War" war meant. Actually it just went to a kind of rest stop.

Following the Soviet invasion of Poland prepared his "Action Plan" for Canada. This plan consisted of the following elements:

By encouraging the BCATP (British Commonwealth Training Plan) Canada got the nickname "the Aerodrome of Democracy" – "the airport of democracy".
 * protection of the own territory
 * two infantry divisions to the front
 * training of Commonwealth pilots on Canadian soil
 * creation of a Department of supply
 * Rantsoeneringdepartement
 * high load on extreme profits
 * creation of a censorship Commission