| Titre : | American Economic Growth Post-world war II |
| Auteurs : | BRAHIMI Rania Halima, Auteur ; P/ LLA Dr. Zakaria Sid Ahmed SELMI, Directeur de thèse |
| Type de document : | texte imprimé |
| Editeur : | SAIDA [ALGERIE] : 1- University of Saida - Dr. Moulay Tahar / Faculty of Letters, Languages and Arts Department of English Language and Literature, 2021-2022 |
| Format : | 60p / 27cm |
| Accompagnement : | CD |
| Langues: | Anglais |
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Declaration of Originality………………………………………………………………...II
Dedication………………………………………………………………………………...III Acknowledgments………………………………………………………………………..IV Abstract……………………………………………………………………………………V Table of Contents………………………………………………………………………...VI List of Figures..…….……….………………………………………………………….....IX List of Abbreviations and Acronyms ……………………………………………....X General Introduction…………………………………………………………………...…1 Chapter One: US Economic Recessions post WWII ……………………………………3 1.1 Introduction…………………………………………………………………………..4 1.2 The Great Depression………………………………………………………………...5 1.3 World War II…………………………………………………………………………...8 1.3.1 Financing the war……………………………………………………………...9 1.3.2 Taxation………………………………………………………………………10 1.4 Timing and severity…………………………………………………………………...11 1.4.1 Poverty……………………………………………………………………….12 1.4.2 Crimes and corruption…………………………………………………….....13 1.5 Money, Banking and Deflation……………………………………………………..17 1.5.1 Stock market crash……………………………………………………….….15 1.5.2 Banking panics and monetary contraction…………………………………17 1.6 Price Controls and the Standard of Living…………………………………………19 1.7 Conclusion………………………………………………………………………….21 Chapter Two: The Renaissance Of The US Economy ……………………….............22 2.1 Introduction………………………………………………………………………..23 2.2 American Isolationism in the 1930s………………………………………………23 2.3 America's Economic Breakthrough during World War II………………………...24 2.4 End of WWII……………………………………………………………………….26 2.4.1 Mobilizing for War………………………………………………………..26 2.4.2 Mobilizing U.S. industry in World War II………………………………..27 2.5 Preparedness and Conversion……………………………………………………...27 2.5.1 War Administration………………………………………………………..28 2.5.2 War Production Board……………………………………………………..29 2.5.3 Office of War Mobilization………………………………………………..30 2.5.4 War Bonds…………………………………………………………………30 2.6 Labor Unions……………………………………………………………………...30 2.6.1 Expansion of Employment………………………………………………..31 2.6.2 Population Shifts…………………………………………………………31 2.7 Scientific and Technological Innovation………………………………………….32 2.7.1 The Manhattan Project……………………………………………………..34 2.7.2 Aerospace………………………………………………………………….34 2.7.3 Shipbuilding………………………………………………………………..35 2.8 G.I. Bill…………………………………………………………………………...35 2.9 Arts and Entertainment…………………………………………………………...37 2.10 The War Economy at High Water…………………………………………….....39 2.11 The U.S.’s Position at the End of the War……………………………………….39 2.12 Conclusion……………………………………………………………………….39 Chapter Three: Post-war II reconstruction and development in the Golden Age of Capitalism ……….......................................................................................................41 3.1 Introduction………………………………………………………………….....41 3.1.1 The Golden Age………………………………………………………...41 3.2 The Rising Power of the Dollar………………………………………………...42 3.2.1 The Dollar and Oil ……………………………………………………43 3.3 Bretton Woods Conference …………………………………………………...45 3.3.1 Strengthening Surveillance and the International Monetary System ………………………………………………………………………………………...48 3.3.2 Economic Reform and Conditionality …………………………………49 3.3.3 Management of the Transition to a Market Economy…………………..50 3.3.4 The Global Roles of the Bretton Woods Institutions ……….…………..51 3.4 United Nations………………………………………………………………….51 3.5 Marshall Plan…………………………………………………………………...52 3.6 New Markets and Industries……………………………………………………53 3.6.1 Trade……………………………………………………………………..53 3.7 Reconstruction, growth and stability……………………………………………55 3.7.1 Employment……………………………………………………………...55 3.7.2 Gross Domestic Product and Sector Productivity……………………….56 3.7.3 Female Employment……………………………………………………57 3.8 International finance…………………………………………………………….58 3.9 Conclusion………………………………………………………………………60 General Conclusion………………………………………………..………………...62 Glossary………………………………………………………………………………64 Works Cited………………………………………………………………………….65 List of Figures Figure 1: History of U.S. Growth…………………………………………………………..6 Figure 2: Black Thursday stock market crash…………………………………………......16 Figure 3: money and output in the United State……………………………………….......18 Figure 4: US Mobilization during World War II…………………………………………..27 Table 1: Indices of American Manufacturing Output ……………………………………..29 |
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