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.
Oldest Homo sapiens bones ever found shake foundations of the human story. Idea that modern humans evolved in East Africa 200,000 years ago challenged by extraordinary discovery of 300,000-year-old remains in Moroccan mine.