How Did The First World War Affect Canada

Three things stood out to me this week: one was how history repeated itself leading up to both World Wars, in that Canada entered both wars woefully unprepared; the next was how quickly unforeseen political and economic events could unseat sitting Prime Ministers; and the third was Vance's interpretation that the First World War failed to create the immediate postwar Canadian nationalism that the federal politicians had hoped for. History repeats itself as the old saying goes and that was certainly for Canada immediately upon the war declarations in 1914 and 1939 respectively. While in the First World War this lack of preparation was due to the expectation that the war would be of a short duration, in the Second World War it was due to a combination of the lack of funds, due to the Great Depression, to spend on the military in addition to the hopeful, and the naive belief that another major war was not possible. However the articles, and the respective Prime Minister's biographies, point out the differences in the respective governments' under Borden and King respectively, in enacting showing indeed that the King government had learned from the Borden government's experience in the First World War. With regards …show more content…
Bennett. Bennett taking office in 1930, ironically proved to destroy his own political career while saving his opponent's career, the recently-defeated MacKenzie King. Bennett's time in office coincided with the Great Depression's worst years and, as is the case with the vast majority of Canada's Prime Ministers, Bennett became emblematic of the economic problems that the country was facing and his inability, like the vast majority of the worlds' leaders, to come up with any sort solutions to the crisis doomed his political