HIS 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Raf Bomber Command, War Production Board, Pearl Harbor
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Fighting a two front war: when war broke out, the us had the 17th largest, sweeden had a larger military, we were not prepared for this war. We had to build and produce everything for this war almost overnight. These two boards to control of the united states economy. Went to lamp makers, paid them extra to change and make rifles. Auto manufacturers stopped making cars and government made them make tanks, Massive intervention of the economy is essentially what ended the great depression. Keynesian economics: this government control in wwii was keynesian to the extreme. European theatre: most immediate threat was germany. 4 years, germany had marched all across europe unstopped and their military was basically badass. Controlled france, poland, czechoslovakia, etc: north africa. Soviet union was fighting germany the majority of the time. Stalin was begging churchill and fdr to open up a second front .
