History of the United States II / Unit 12 USH2 1667 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Arsenal
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The idea
In August nineteen forty Congress created the Defense Plant Corporation, which built three hundred forty-four plants in the West by nineteen forty-five.
In practice
Corporate profits rising from six point four billion dollars in nineteen forty to nearly eleven billion in nineteen forty-four, the anchor records.
Where people slip
The Yawp says war production pulled America out of the Great Depression, unit eleven's open question.
Your place on the trail
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