The Impact Of World War II On American Technology

World War II was a turning point for American technology. America spent a lot of money and resources to manufacture supplies for allied troop in the begging of WWII. Once the United States entered WWII they had a lot of factories at hand to manufacture weapons for their own troop in the war. Even after WWII the military industrial complex continued creating new forms of technology and leading the United States to the moon. Three technologies created during and after WWI where the atomic bomb, pesticides, and the internet which where all originally designed for war. The atomic bomb was created by the United States government through the Manhattan project. According to Thomas P. Hughes Alexander Sachs “… played a critical role in bringing the attention of his friend Roosevelt to the threat of a German atomic bomb.” (Hughes 374). The physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer was appointed by President Roosevelt to lead the Manhattan Project with General Leslie Groves which was assigned the task of creating a nuclear weapon before the Germans …show more content…
The internet was invented by the United States through the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency. DARPA invented the internet for as a failsafe form communication if the telephone infrastructure was ever taken down during an attack on American soil. The internet has been changed into a form of public communication which is protected by the United States government as a free form of information and protected under free speech. While the success of the internet was due to business trying to make a profit without the protection of the government the internet could have easily collapsed during its infancy. The Internet was created for use of war but capitalized with corporations. People are not always connected to everyone in the world no matter where they go through the