The GI Bill of Rights and a strong demand for consumer good - coupled with defense spending on the Korean War and increased foreign demand for U.S. goods - greatly improved the economy. The US became the richest country in the world.
<span>The hardships of the previous fifteen years of war and depression were replaced by rising living standards, increased opportunities, and a newly emerging American culture confident of its future and place in the world.</span>
because their own
land holdings in North America. They did not want the
British in control of part of their continent.
