How America Became Rick After WWII
There are many beliefs on how America prospered after WWII that lead America out of the great depression. I plan on finding out the truths and myths to what really helped build America to become the world’s super power from the late 1930s to mid-1950s. Some major events that took place was the regrowth of the industrial age, equality in the work place, the rise of big government, and America becoming the world’s police force.
America became rich at the end of WWII. During the new industrial age boom, Americans showed desire to succeed and prosper. One of the great story’s is about the ball point pen. The year was 1944; American factories were producing planes at an astonishing rate and ideas were booming, …show more content…
He used old bombing sight rollers with old surplus aluminum for the barrels to make the pens. Milton Reynolds beat Eversharp and Eberhard Faber to the market because on October 29, 1945 he had 10,000 pens ready for sale. His pens were presented at the windows of Gimbels in New York city where more than 5,000 shoppers stormed the store and bought all 10,000 pens at the price of $12.50 each. This story is a great showcase of how America was on the track of prospering greatly. Herman, Arthur (2012) states that a major cause for this growth was “entrepreneur-ship, innovation, cheap and readily available raw materials, a built-in bias toward competitive production, and a voracious consumer demand -- made more voracious by the deprivation of the Depression years and restrictions of World War II” (p20,6p). This was the reality after world WWII. With that said, WWII was not the reason why America came out of the great depression as so many think, if anything it prolonged the great depression. People saw net farm growth double and corporate …show more content…
However, the end of WWII was very different, it started a major rise in the civil status of the United States. The rise to pursue higher-education lead to better innovations and entrepreneur-ship. America started to realize it had major racial and gender discrimination problems spawning the FEPC to help with the integration of minorities along with female workers. Once this program gained a foot hold in the aircraft industry, we saw a major rise in production and a chance for minorities and women to make a living wage. The government implemented other programs that focused in the development of its military, the citizens and balance of big business and government entities. As the government grew it was in the position of becoming the world’s super power and supreme police force. Finally, the 1951 Truman act help band together 45 nations in the agreement to protect the interests of each nation’s economy, development of civil statute and
There are many beliefs on how America prospered after WWII that lead America out of the great depression. I plan on finding out the truths and myths to what really helped build America to become the world’s super power from the late 1930s to mid-1950s. Some major events that took place was the regrowth of the industrial age, equality in the work place, the rise of big government, and America becoming the world’s police force.
America became rich at the end of WWII. During the new industrial age boom, Americans showed desire to succeed and prosper. One of the great story’s is about the ball point pen. The year was 1944; American factories were producing planes at an astonishing rate and ideas were booming, …show more content…
He used old bombing sight rollers with old surplus aluminum for the barrels to make the pens. Milton Reynolds beat Eversharp and Eberhard Faber to the market because on October 29, 1945 he had 10,000 pens ready for sale. His pens were presented at the windows of Gimbels in New York city where more than 5,000 shoppers stormed the store and bought all 10,000 pens at the price of $12.50 each. This story is a great showcase of how America was on the track of prospering greatly. Herman, Arthur (2012) states that a major cause for this growth was “entrepreneur-ship, innovation, cheap and readily available raw materials, a built-in bias toward competitive production, and a voracious consumer demand -- made more voracious by the deprivation of the Depression years and restrictions of World War II” (p20,6p). This was the reality after world WWII. With that said, WWII was not the reason why America came out of the great depression as so many think, if anything it prolonged the great depression. People saw net farm growth double and corporate …show more content…
However, the end of WWII was very different, it started a major rise in the civil status of the United States. The rise to pursue higher-education lead to better innovations and entrepreneur-ship. America started to realize it had major racial and gender discrimination problems spawning the FEPC to help with the integration of minorities along with female workers. Once this program gained a foot hold in the aircraft industry, we saw a major rise in production and a chance for minorities and women to make a living wage. The government implemented other programs that focused in the development of its military, the citizens and balance of big business and government entities. As the government grew it was in the position of becoming the world’s super power and supreme police force. Finally, the 1951 Truman act help band together 45 nations in the agreement to protect the interests of each nation’s economy, development of civil statute and