Colonies are newly founded lands on a certain location in this sense while they still swore allegiance to the old country. When talking about militia and colonies we have to know that militias which were self-assemblied were often the first and only line of defence. This was also in part due to bad logistic.
World war 2 brought a great need for manufacturing weapons and other supplies. the war brought money for america as they used their immense industrial economy that caused the great depression to produce supplies, reopening the thousands of now needed jobs.
