WORLD WAR II
The Second World War pioneered in an era of unparalleled growth
in the border region. U.S. border states were slinged forward by an outpouring
of federal expenditure for defense
with the lions share going to the states throughout the Pacific Coast and
in the Southwest.
Government discoverings in aircraft,electronics and nuclear
weapons supported not only the nations war effort but also the extraordinary
growth of the allied nuclear power, rocketry,communication,computer and chemical
industries
In advance to 1940 the U.S. border economy resisted mainly on
agriculture, mining and related to this little on manufacturing.
The border economy’s main sector emphasis was transformed with
the influence of federal wartime spending.
During World War II, the federal government funded new research
clusters such as the Lawrence
Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley and the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
in New Mexico.
These institutions also attracted a number of firms that settled
nearby and invested their energies
in aerospace, advanced electronics,rocketry and similar ventures.
Wartime expenditures accelerated the region’s shift from an
economy based primarily on extractive industries to a diversified economy
strongest in manufacturing and service
industries
As a result, border industries and the border economy grew in concert
with the government’s defense appropriations and experienced industrial cycles
distinct from those in the older
and more traditional manufacturing centers of the North East and
Midwest.
It was perhaps
natural that the states along the boundary woud particularly benefit from
government stimulated industrialization since the region’s economy had been
closely tried to the federal budget since the
depression.
World War II shifted the government ‘s financial emphasis from
primary sector activities to newer
industries . Abundant electricity, made available by such depression public
works projects as Hoover Dam, made the border states an attractive site for new war
industries that required low cost energy.
Wartime migration to the border states fueled the economic
upsurge, as people from the East and Midwest responded to the attraction of
higher wages.
World War II industrialization of the border economy received
added impetus from the financial accumulation of the early
1940s.
World War II stimulated important economic changes in Mexico and
in the Mexican border states.
U.S. involvement in World War II provided two crucial stimuli to
Mexican an industrial development implicit protection from imports and increased
wartime demand for Mexican exports.
During and after the war the Mexican border states were
incorporated into Mexico’s industrial boom.
After 1940, agriculture which had benefited from irrigation
policies and land reform in the 1920s and 1930s, experienced increased emphasis
an capital-intensive mechanized
methods, large-scale irrigation Works, and greater use of pesticides and
herbicides to raise productivity.
As a result of these wartime changes, the border states
developed Mexico’s most modern, commercial, export-oriented
agricultural sector.
California became the leader as an agricultural producer in the
United States.
The agricultural complex of the Mexican North turned
increasingly to the U.S. market, first for cotton, then for fruits and
vegetables.
Most of the irrigation was made possible by federally funded
water projects.
The data indicating the amount of irrigated land provide a good
gauge of the importance of federal expenditure in this region as a
whole.
Within the overall development of the border region during and
after the war, California in the United States and Nuevo Leon, Baja California and
Chihuahua in Mexico saw the most dramatic transformation of their
economies.
As a result, this trend established a long-lasting pattern in which federal
expenditure and streams of migrant workers would undergird the development of
both U.S.West and the Mexican North
The Second World War pioneered in an era of unparalleled growth
in the border region. U.S. border states were slinged forward by an outpouring
of federal expenditure for defense
with the lions share going to the states throughout the Pacific Coast and
in the Southwest.
Government discoverings in aircraft,electronics and nuclear
weapons supported not only the nations war effort but also the extraordinary
growth of the allied nuclear power, rocketry,communication,computer and chemical
industries
In advance to 1940 the U.S. border economy resisted mainly on
agriculture, mining and related to this little on manufacturing.
The border economy’s main sector emphasis was transformed with
the influence of federal wartime spending.
During World War II, the federal government funded new research
clusters such as the Lawrence
Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley and the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
in New Mexico.
These institutions also attracted a number of firms that settled
nearby and invested their energies
in aerospace, advanced electronics,rocketry and similar ventures.
Wartime expenditures accelerated the region’s shift from an
economy based primarily on extractive industries to a diversified economy
strongest in manufacturing and service
industries
As a result, border industries and the border economy grew in concert
with the government’s defense appropriations and experienced industrial cycles
distinct from those in the older
and more traditional manufacturing centers of the North East and
Midwest.
It was perhaps
natural that the states along the boundary woud particularly benefit from
government stimulated industrialization since the region’s economy had been
closely tried to the federal budget since the
depression.
World War II shifted the government ‘s financial emphasis from
primary sector activities to newer
industries . Abundant electricity, made available by such depression public
works projects as Hoover Dam, made the border states an attractive site for new war
industries that required low cost energy.
Wartime migration to the border states fueled the economic
upsurge, as people from the East and Midwest responded to the attraction of
higher wages.
World War II industrialization of the border economy received
added impetus from the financial accumulation of the early
1940s.
World War II stimulated important economic changes in Mexico and
in the Mexican border states.
U.S. involvement in World War II provided two crucial stimuli to
Mexican an industrial development implicit protection from imports and increased
wartime demand for Mexican exports.
During and after the war the Mexican border states were
incorporated into Mexico’s industrial boom.
After 1940, agriculture which had benefited from irrigation
policies and land reform in the 1920s and 1930s, experienced increased emphasis
an capital-intensive mechanized
methods, large-scale irrigation Works, and greater use of pesticides and
herbicides to raise productivity.
As a result of these wartime changes, the border states
developed Mexico’s most modern, commercial, export-oriented
agricultural sector.
California became the leader as an agricultural producer in the
United States.
The agricultural complex of the Mexican North turned
increasingly to the U.S. market, first for cotton, then for fruits and
vegetables.
Most of the irrigation was made possible by federally funded
water projects.
The data indicating the amount of irrigated land provide a good
gauge of the importance of federal expenditure in this region as a
whole.
Within the overall development of the border region during and
after the war, California in the United States and Nuevo Leon, Baja California and
Chihuahua in Mexico saw the most dramatic transformation of their
economies.
As a result, this trend established a long-lasting pattern in which federal
expenditure and streams of migrant workers would undergird the development of
both U.S.West and the Mexican North