Essays Tagged: "war economy"
An in depth study of the Normandy Invasion.
The Normandy InvasionWorld War II was in full swing, but the end was drawing near. On the sixth day of June 1944, the American ... ssian counteroffensives at Stalingrad and Kursk held back Hitler's perimeter. Although the American war economy had begun to overshadow Germany's, the Nazi war economy outmatched both that of Great Br ... ke an army across the English Channel had not yet been built. On December 11, 1941, Hitler declared war on the United States. George C. Marshall, Roosevelt's chief of staff, appointed Dwight D. Eisenh ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II
Description of how conformity affected the 1950's American lifestyle.
Alex Orr3/30/03Multimedia History1950'sConformityFollowing World War II America saw an extreme decade of both conformity and nonconformity. A strong post-war economy ... eaver and Father Knows Best. Deviating from this popular culture was the "Beat Generation."The post-war economic boom of the 1950's in the U.S. resulted in overwhelming prosperity in comparison with t ... re very popular and portrayed the stereotypical suburban white family in neighborhoods seemingly unaware of racial discrimination and ethnic problems, and where mothers never desired or were expected ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Fascism in Germany and Italy (contrast and comparisons).
facing very similar problems. One of the major problems that both countries encountered was a post-war economy teeming with instability. Germany's fragile economy was undermined by widespread unemplo ... er into economic collapse. Another problem that brought about fascism in the two countries was post-war peace settlements, especially the Versailles Treaty. While the Germans were exasperated by the e ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History > German History
What is the Bretton Woods Institution.
Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, USA in July 1944. Their aims were to help rebuild the collapsed post-war economy and to promote international economic co-operation. The original Bretton Woods agreement ... the early 1990s.The establishment of the World Bank and the IMF came at the end of the Second World War. They were based on the ideas of a trio of key experts - US Treasury Secretary Henry Morganthau, ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers
Terrorism's Effect On The Economy
for the economy to recover and profits start increasing again.The transformation into an always on-war economy will make the recession more severe and will drag economic growth for years to come. The ... mic growth for years to come. The impact of an ever-present terrorist threat differs from a typical war or natural disaster that often ends abruptly and rapidly returns to normal. Unlike past recessio ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics
Why did the economic growth of the post-war 'Golden Years' come to an end in the mid-1970s?
After the World War II, which was the largest and the most significant armed conflict in the world history, Western ... story, Western European nations had experienced recovery, development and prosperity since the post-war years. As the main-battlefield of the WWII, the economic structure of Western Europe was destroy ... o a new era of the "Golden Years", with the world economy expending even overtaken the level of pre-war economy. It was described as the greatest and the most dramatic, rapid and universal social tran ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History