There are similarities and differences in the strategies that the four nations use to predict a solution the depression. As a result of the depression two kinds of government emerged. In the United States and Great Britain it continued to be a liberal democracy and in Germany and Japan an authoritarian government prevailed. Great Britain, once the industrial leader had approximately two million unemployed people, with prices falling and a national deficit of one hundred and seventy million pounds plus a thirty-five million pounds in payment to the United states for support in World war I. Prime Minister Ramsey MacDonald and his governme