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Originally Posted by svandamme
the Great Depression for all intent and purpose, had already ended when Pearl Harbour was attacked. War in Europe was already underway for some time... and the US economy had geared up for it... supplying all sorts of goods and weaponry... The rearmament policies started years before the war even started, and unemployment had already dropped conciderably even by 37... 4 years before Pearl...
Sure, WW2 kinda accelerated the rebound... But to say the depression ended because of the war is a stretch of history....To say Pearl Harbour as an event caused the rebound.. is an even longer stretch.
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All true. What she said wouldn't get an A on any history test, but it wasn't in even the same league as most of the other answers. Her answer might get a B- or a C+. The others get a major fail.