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"It was capable of producing among other things the largest merchant fleet in the world, 78 Capital Ships (Cruiser or Larger), 141 Escort Carriers, and almost 850 Destroyers (DD) and Destroyer Escorts (DE). It turned out more than 300,000 aircraft, 88,410 tanks and 2,382,311 jeeps and trucks.

American agriculture increased production to an all time high and coal, steel and lumber production soared."

The USA also had a huge and extremely determined pool of manpower to fuel that incredible industrial machine. Compared to WWI, the USA literally outproduced every nation on Earth combined in virtually every vital resource. In the end, with the manpower, raw materials, and determination to industrialize the USA created the modern era of technology and economic principles.

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The US was capable of providing important materials to belligerents helping them to wage war .

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Got it going hammer-and-tongs after the long Depression that had lasted almost till the outbreak of war.

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