Is there any relation between 1930 great depression and World War II ?
The New Deal helped reduce many harsh aspects of the Great Depression but it was World War II that made the real difference. As European nations went to war American factories began to make war goods to sell to nations like Britain. After Japan attacked Pearl Harbor over ten million American men went into the service in one way or another. This opened up a huge demand for workers to supply them and the Depression was over. After the war most of the rest of the world was in ruins and the American economy set the pace for the rest of the world. The US government’s reaction to its entry into W.W.II was to institute massive deficit spending, and the conscription of all able bodied young men for the war effort, thus creating a full-employment economy which was the immediate end to the Great Depression. A belief existed that another depression might occur upon the return of the young men to the labor force so a comprehensive veteran’s benefit package was legislated. The logistics of the ensu
