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World War II and the West

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Reshaping the West

From 1940 to 1945 the western economy moved from resource extraction and shipping eastward to a huge manufacturing, service, and aerospace, electronic and scientific based economy. "In four years the war had transformed a backward colonial region into an economic pacesetter for the nation." Nash

Gerald D. Nash

University of Nebraska Press  1990

Location
978.103 N24 1990
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