| ▲ | bumby 2 days ago |
| Why do you think that is? I’m wondering if the shared sacrifice of WW2 has something to do with it. |
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| ▲ | majormajor 2 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Labor also has more power when a ton of young newcomers to the working force were just killed before they could ever make it there. |
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| ▲ | bitwize 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| That's half of it. The other half is, WWII turned the United States from a relative backwater to a military and industrial superpower. So the war also taught lessons on a societal level about organization and cooperation, and the postwar economic boom provided the means to get great things done. |
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| ▲ | jcranmer 2 days ago | parent [-] | | > The other half is, WWII turned the United States from a relative backwater to a military and industrial superpower. The US was the leading industrial power from around 1880 or 1890, and it became the leading military power in the 1910s (by dint of entering WWI so late that it didn't exhaust its manpower fighting it). It may have been a cultural backwater as late as WWI, but its economic status would have been fairly undisputed. And by WWII, the only question anyone would have seriously asked is if the US or the UK held the throne as greatest of the great powers. | | |
| ▲ | gedy 2 days ago | parent [-] | | I think if you look at how most people lived, worked, travelled, communicated, educated, etc before WW2 - there was a huge improvement after the war that resulted in lots of development and economic opportunities for the average person. | | |
| ▲ | Clubber a day ago | parent [-] | | Sure, but that doesn't make the original statement correct. >WWII turned the United States from a relative backwater to a military and industrial superpower. |
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