-collar professionals and blue-collar workers across the entire period, including the Civil War decade, while farmers suffered in the …

The great surge in munitions production in World War II, which reached its peak in 1943, was produced by a building … boom launched in 1941 and 1942. Resources were drawn rapidly to war production centers by financial incentives and other … end of the war, but they cannot account for the speed and magnitude of the initial response. …

It is frequently claimed that World War II contributed to the growth of big government in the United States. One theory … is that agencies that were given additional resources or authority during the war were able to retain them after the war …. The public, moreover, it is said, had gotten use to higher taxes during the war, so it was not necessary for the …

In Classical Athens, being at war was much more common than peace. The military expenditures were correspondingly large … rowers during the final phase of the Peloponnesian war, but not necessarily before. The manpower losses in connection with …

When natural resource revenues provide an important motive and/or means for armed conflict, the transition from war …

the twentieth century were dominated by the international gold standard. But as a result of World War I, this system was … replaced by the troubled gold exchange standards of the 1920s and 1930s. As a result of World War II the interwar system was … replaced in turn by the Bretton Woods system. And as a result of inflation of the late 1960s, produced in part by America's war …