Figure 1.-- This may look like a very ordinary farm family out on a Sunday outing probanly a picinic. And it is. But the image in many ways encapaulates why the democracies led by America emerged victorious in the epic confrontation with the great totalitarian powers of the 20th century: Fascist Italy, NAZI Germany, Militarist Japan, and eventually Soviet Russia. The very ordinary nature of the farm family here is notable. It meant that working people could own cars. That had huge strategic and economic consequencs.

This may look like a very ordinary farm family out on a Sunday outing probanly a picinic. And it is. But the image in many ways encapaulates why the democracies led by America emerged victorious in the epic confrontation with the great totalitarian powers of the 20th century: Fascist Italy, NAZI Germany, Militarist Japan, and eventually Soviet Russia. The very ordinary nature of the farm family here is notable. It meant that working people could own cars. That had huge strategic and economic consequencs. In Europe working-class people (farm and industrial could not own cars. A 1930s image shows a fashionable German woman with her sporty convertable. This of coursebmean that that the mjoror verhicle industry in Eurooeamd esoecially in Gerramy was rather small. Notice the fine Ford automobile this American farm family had. No other farmer any where in the world could aford a car like this or no motorize farm operations like the Americans. This is imprtant beacuse it mean that American farmers were the most productive in the world. It gave American the ability to save Europe from famine after World War I and to feed all the countries fighting NAZI Germany in World War II. But it also showed that very orfinary people in America could afford a car. As a result, America which was already the largest industrial power in the world, was propeled into the industrial startisphere after Henry Ford unveiled the Model-T (1907). As a result the United States econmy was twice the size of the NAZI and Soviet economies and farbmore efficent. By the end of the War four times the size of those economies. In an industrial war based on tanks, trucks, artillery, planes, and ships would be vital in winning the War. And eventually four decades later, the Soviet Union would sucumb to the energy of motivated farmerts and workers and the and efficencies of the free market.

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