In Studs Terkel’s intro to World War II, I read about the dramatic change in the US economy. Just like everything went from “Boom to Bust” in the great depression, everything turned around overnight when the US entered World War II. The narrator recalled, “In the words of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dr. New Deal was replaced by Dr. Win The War” (Terkel 168). Everything in the US was now being used to help the war effort. The New Deal helped a little with the depression, but World War II was the thing that completely pulled the US out of the depression. Positions in the military were opened up everywhere, which gave men jobs once again. While the men were off in the military, jobs in factories and labor and all the other jobs men were given, were no open to women. If it wasn’t for World War II, the US may never have recovered from the depression.