Politics and New Political Parties in the 1930s

• When times go bad and people do not have any money, they look to new forms of government.

• As the years went by in the depression, people did not know what to do. New radical political parties were the solution.

• The Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) made up of middle class educated people and former labour leaders (some of them veterans of the Winnipeg General Strike) wanted government control of businesses.

• The Social Credit Party wanted to create programs to help farmers and poor labourers.

• Wanted to create a provincial currency and give citizens $25 a month.

• These parties were so successful because of the bad times.

• In Germany Adolf Hitler comes to power during the depression when times are tough and the German people were looking for a solution to the depression.