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.
Basic evolution ideas challenged 'Oldest hominid' skull unearthed The Toumai Skull NEW YORK (AP) Scientists in central Africa say they have unearthed the oldest trace of a pre-human ancestor  a remarkably intact skull of a previously unknown species that walked upright as far back as 7 million years ago.ated between 6 and 7 million years old, Toumai  of the newly dubbed species Sahelanthropus tchadensis  could be as much as 1 million years older than previously found hominid fossils, and at least 3 million years older than the next-oldest hominid skulls.