World War II

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This paper reviews and discusses the role that the US played in World War II. The paper reports how, during the dedication ceremonies of the National World War II Memorial, US President George W. Bush remarked on how American unity and resolve, and the leadership of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, steered the course and outcome of the war in those days of hardship and uncertainty.

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"Insights that can be drawn from the effectiveness of this framework on the economy of America also pointed to the extent of its influence in the outcome of World War II. First, it meant that the success of modern, large-scale warfare highly depended on the ability to plan, build and convert capacity, reallocate resources, to mass-produce standardized high-quality output, and coordinate material and product flows through an efficient supply chain. Second, the key to efficiency was not centralized coordination but the revitalization and reallocation of resources. Third, special interest groups would vie for influence in large-scale political-economic institutions. Moreover, the elites in the contemporary United States wielded power in commercial, political and military institutions in the last 70 or more years. There were similar and robust struggle among elites and interest groups in Eastern Europe, Russia and China at the time. Mobilization for World War II happened when the US economy was quite self-sufficient in the 1930s when global gross domestic product went to its lowest levels in the past 150 years."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Breuer, William. Uncover Tales of World War II. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1999
• Bush, Georg W. Remarks at the Decication of the National World War II Memorial. Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents. Government Printing Office, May 29, 2004
• Conant, Jennet. Tuxedo Park: a Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science that Changed the Course of World War II. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2002
• Friedman, Max Paul. Nazis and Good Neighbors. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003
• Hughes, Thomas Alexander. Anglo-American Tactical Air Operations in World War II. Air and Space Power Journal: US Air Force, 2004

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