L America/Canada Depression

Getulio Vargas

Getulio Vargas

Brazilian President during the Great Depression

• Created the Estado Novo: Authorian Government, increased steel production, celebrated race mixing

ISI

Import-substitution Industrialization

• Less exports so Latin America Industrial production increased

• Bastilla-style activism: Set wages, prices, regulate production levels, manipulate exchange rates, labor laws

• More Light Industry

Batllismo

reform movement in Uruguay

• economic nationalism, against foreign economic imperialism, gov control on economy

Good Neighbor POlicy

• Created by FDR

• Latin America and US were Allies and no military control

Diego Rivera

Illustrated the Mexican revolution and Mexican identity

• made murals

Frida Kahlo

Illiterate the Mexican revolution

• self portraits, personal nationalism → Mexican folk art and indigenous themes

WW2 and Latin America

Latin Industries bloomed: ISI

RB Bennett

• conservative party

• PM of Canada after King

• Bennett’s New Deal → just like the US’s New deal

  • Conservative party didn’t like

• Good Friends with FDR

Mackenzie King

• Liberal Party

• PM of Canada in the beginning of the Great depression.

• Created the British North American Act: More power to Individual Provences → didn’t work

• Became the PM after Bennett again

On-to-Ottawa Trek

People were traveling to find work

• Run by the military → very strict

• Communist party inacted workplace riots

• Bennett Borough → huge riot

Hockey

• Form of escapism

• Became popular through Radio Broadcasts → Cornerstone of Canadian culture

Royal twenty centers

a nationwide system of camps to house and provide work for single, unemployed, homeless Canadian males

William “Bible Bill” Aberhart

• Canadian politician

• Spread the bible through the radio

• actually controlled a Provence