1 Although war is a time of hardships and usually poverty, World War 2 had many positive effects for America. 2  One point of prosper was economy. 3  Some said that the Second World War put an end to the Great Depression.4  Many of America's products went overseas and by 1943, half of the country's production went overseas. The war did not end the depression. 2  The end of the war ended the depression. 3  Going into World War II, the US was in one of the worst economic downturns of the country's history. 4  Money was allocated for the wartime effort and some of the New Deal promises were dropped to the wayside.
PUBLISHED. This jawbone, shown steps from the place where it was spotted by Arizona State University grad student Chalachew Seyoum, puts the first members of the human genus Homo in the Afar region of Ethiopia half a million years earlier than previously thought.
Researchers have uncovered a new clue about human origins after discovering the oldest known human DNA in a legendary Spanish archeological site called Sima de los Huesos, or the Pit of Bones.. Researchers were able to extract DNA from a leg bone that was estimated to be 400,000 years old. After extracting the DNA from a femur bone, Matthias Meyer, who published his findings in a study in the journal Nature, was able to replicate the entire genome for the ancient human relative.