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United States World War II GDP (compared to other countries)
The United States had the highest amount of gross domestic product out of a total of six empires during World War II, including the British empire, French empire, the Soviet Union, the German Reich, Italian empire, and finally the Japanese empire. Through the years of 1938 and 1945 each year you can see a rise in GDP of almost double the amount of other countries. Most stats were measured in the 800s through thousands, while other empires only had numbers ranging from 200-400. GDP
 * GDP is important for measuring how well a countries economy is doing. Looking at federal government spending, consumer supply and demand helps determine this percentage as well.

GDP during World War II Unemployment During World War II
 * Debt and higher taxes led to GDP growth percentages over 17%. This trend continued throughout the war and stopped increasing after the war ended. For the United States, government spending was used as a positive indicator of GDP growth. However the high rates of government only was beneficial for a short period of time, a trend that can be seen in most wars.
 * Before World War II government spending in 1941 represented 30% of GDP, or about $408 billion dollars. in 1944 at the peak of World War II, government spending had risen to over $1.6 trillion about 79% of the GDP. During this three year period the total GDP represented by government spending rose 394%.
 * During World War II Unemployment by 1945 had fallen to 1.9% from 14.6% in 1940. 20% of the population during the the war was employed within the armed forces.

Graph of U.S. Unemployment Rate, 1930-1945

https://herb.ashp.cuny.edu/files/original/graph-of-us-unemployment-rate-1930-1945_3c9a1385fd.jpg


 * The beginning years of World War II shows a spike in employment, but towards the end of the war decreased significantly. The employment spike was in relation to the tremendous amount of production the United States was making. Examples of high numbers of employment could have been seen in at Gulf Shipbuilding which obtained 240 employees at the beginning of 1940 and increased to 11,600 employees in 1943. Alabama Dry dock also was an exemplary business in employment that raised number from 1,000 workers to 30,000 in the most productive years of the war. Demographics of employment consisted of eight million women including African Americans and Latinas, adding to the 24 million that searched for defensive jobs outside of the war.

Price Of War
Many concerns and political influence come from the price of war. While GDP can easily increase Federal expenditures, it also can influence political elections and government decision making. No matter how much percentages of GDP increase or decrease we need higher amounts of GDP in order to pay for more investments, one of those investments being more wars. To pay for these wars, taxes are held at a very high rate. For example, by the end of World War II tax rates went from 1.5% to 15%. Along with tax percentages reaching high amounts, spending on non-defense programs were cut in half during the period of World War II. Tax cuts allow one to see GDP in effect for the average American. Still, almost ten years after World War II, in 1950 and 1951 congress raised taxes close to 4% in order to pay for the Korean War. After the Korean War, in 1968 taxes again were raised 10% to pay for the Vietnam War. This caused GDP to raise 1%. Although research can support positive relationship between production and jobs with GDP, research can also show the negative relationship with tax increases and GDP. Kwhite86 (talk) 17:19, 26 October 2017 (UTC)

Production During War
The United States took caution on the amount of production created during World War II because of them still recovering from the Great Depression. However FDR set enormous production goals to fulfill during the war. The early 1940's were set to have 60,000 aircraft increasing to 125,000 in 1943, also with the production of 120,000 tanks and 55,000 aircraft in the same time period. Ford Motor Company in Michigan built one Ford car made of 15,000 parts on the assembly lines every 63 seconds. Fords production contributed to America's total production of vehicles in 1941 totaling three million. America surpassed production numbers that caused employment to skyrocket. Compared to Japan,, America excelled production at the rate it took Japan all war, building more planes in 1944 than Japan built in the years 1939-1945. As a result, half of the production of war from the whole world came from America. Government paid for production using techniques of selling war bonds to finical institutions, rationing household items, and creating more tax revenues. Contributing to the manufacturing boom during the war can trace back to the 1930's and the help of the Alcoa plant. The Alcoa plant prepared millions of pound of aluminum that was used for the production of 304,000 airplanes created during the war. The United States quickly adjusted to huge amount of production loads that can be credited for the hundreds of thousands military and war products used during World War II.