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Becoming the Arsenal
The American Industrial Mobilization for World War II, 1938-1942
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2009
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Becoming the Arsenal discusses one of the three signal events that transformed the relationship of government and the private sector in directing the American economy. The first was the Great Depression and the government's New Deal recovery program. The second was the gradual abandonment of the monetary Gold Standard, or the 'floating' of the dollar between 1933 and the 1970s. Third, and least appreciated, was the mobilization of the American economy to confront the threat of the Axis ascendancy in World War II. Becoming the Arsenal places the events of this economic mobilization in its political-economic context and evaluates its performance in terms of prevailing military and political realities. The book is structured in three parts. The first deals with the decision to mobilize in May-June 1940. The second part relates the importance of the World War I experience and the economic diplomatic environment of the late 1930s. The final part examines the shift from a partial mobilization to the commitment to a 'Victory Plan' in the fall of 1941, and achievement of complete mobilization and its consequences, in early 1943.
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Edition
1/2009
Copyright Year
2009
ISBN-Print
978-0-7618-4669-7
ISBN-Online
978-0-7618-4670-3
Publisher
Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
316
Product Type
Monograph
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Preface No access
Chapter One: Introduction No access
Chapter Two: The Specter of World War I Industrial Mobilization No access
Chapter Three: The Reality of the Empty Arsenal No access
Chapter Four: Building an Economic-Military Consensus No access
Chapter Five: American Economic Evolution, 1900–1950 No access
Chapter Six: World War I and Military Mobilization No access
Chapter Seven: Military Tradition and Modern War No access
Chapter Eight: Planning Industrial Mobilization, 1920–1939 No access
Chapter Nine: The Economic and Industrial Platform, 1941—The General American Economy No access
Chapter Ten: The Struggle to Define Preparedness and the Victory Plan No access
Chapter Eleven: The Economic Consequences of Pearl Harbor No access
Chapter Twelve: The Military-Civilian Contention No access
