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Belgium experienced a brief but very rapid economic recovery in the aftermath of World War II. The comparatively light damage sustained by Belgium's heavy industry during the German occupation and the Europe-wide need for the country's traditional exports (steel and coal, textiles, and railway infrastructure) meant that Belgium became the first ...
The Wages of Destruction: The Making and the Breaking of the Nazi Economy. New York: Viking. ISBN 978-0-670-03826-8. Turner, Henry A. (1985). German Big Business and the Rise of Hitler. Oxford University Press. Further reading. Abt, Parker (2017). "The Nazi Fiscal Cliff: Unsustainable Financial Practices before World War II".
Hehn, Paul N. (2005), A Low Dishonest Decade: The Great Powers, Eastern Europe, and the Economic Origins of World War II, 1930–1941, Continuum International Publishing Group, ISBN 978-0-8264-1761-9; Imlay, Talbot C. (2003). Facing the Second World War: Strategy, Politics, and Economics in Britain and France 1938–1940. Oxford University Press.
Approaches to the reconfiguration of the economy differ from country to country. [1] Many states increase the degree of planning in their economies during wars; in many cases this extends to rationing, and in some cases to conscription for civil defenses, such as the Women's Land Army and Bevin Boys in the United Kingdom during World War II.
The whaler on HMS Sheffield being manned with an armed boarding party to check a neutral vessel stopped at sea, 20 Oct 1941. The Blockade of Germany (1939–1945), also known as the Economic War, involved operations carried out during World War II by the British Empire and by France in order to restrict the supplies of minerals, fuel, metals, food and textiles needed by Nazi Germany – and ...
This required the country's leadership to take urgent measures to strengthen the nation's economy, with a primary focus on the defense industries. The Soviet Union's war effort in World War II began when the Soviet Union was invaded on the 22 of June 1941. The Soviet Union was at a disadvantage from the very beginning.
Zinc and aluminum coins minted in Germany and occupied territories during World War II (18 P, 2 F) Pages in category "Economic history of World War II" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total.
The Stabilization Act of 1942 (Pub. L. 77–729, 56 Stat. 765, enacted October 2, 1942), formally entitled "An Act to Amend the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942, to Aid in Preventing Inflation, and for Other Purposes," and sometimes referred to as the "Inflation Control Act", [1] was an act of Congress that amended the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942.