Why did the US overtake Europe in global production and industrial advancement ?

Question

can anyone give a detail reason why the US overtook the Europe in the area of industrial production , tech advancement and industrial research . why did the UK all fall behind . what where the leading factor that worked against this countries and what are the factors that worked in the US favor .
what lessons can regions like Africa , Latin America and Asian countries learn from this . Pls we will need a well detailed answer if possible with statistical data backing your argument

Good luck

Answer 1

During World War II, Europe was involved heavily in the war, so the economies of countries in Europe was heavily damaged.On the other hand, the US made lots of money selling weapons and aircraft to the Allies, and they did not enter the war until later. They did not suffer as many casualties as other countries, so they had more men after the war, to continue working. After the war, the US had lots of money and their factories and economy benefited. Also, many people came from other countries looking for opportunities, and some of them were intelligent people, so technology in the US advanced quicker than in Europe.

Regions like Africa, Latin America and Asia need to have better universities and education, so that better educated people can make tecnological advances.

Answer 2

one simple reason - world war 2.
after world war 2, most of Europe lay in ruins.
France and Spain had been occupied, Italy had suffered many casualties due to its alliance with nazi Germany, most of Germany had been completely bombed to pieces by the US, Great Britain and the Soviet Union, and many British cities and factories had been destroyed by German bombs. Western Europe, backed by the United States quickly recovered though, but due to recovery efforts and heavy war casualties, could still not match the US, which had seen no fighting or bombing of its country. After the war, the US economy was booming, due to the massive amounts of money earned selling weapons and ammo to the allies, the US had suffered substantially less casualties during the war, both military and especially civilians than many of the European powers. In fact, many European powers, Germany especially, had suffered so many casualties that the country struggled to even maintain a sizeable workforce. On top of this, many skilled Europeans fled the continent for the US after the war.

In simple terms, Europe spent large amounts of resources on rebuilding what had been destroyed during the war, while the US mainland had the advantage of being untouched by the war. In recent decades however, Western Europe has recovered, and both the European Union as well as Japan are by no means far behind the US in industrial production and tech advancement, actually, in many areas, Western Europe and Japan have surpassed the US.

Answer 3

The answer is easy. It was our liberty that allowed men to be free and not tied down by the shackles of government until the last 50 years when the federal government decided to grow to gargantuan proportions, due in large part to Franklin Roosevelt's packing of the Supreme Court with croneys that removed the protections of the Constitution against federal intrusions into state, business, and personal lives.

Everything good we have had over the years is a result of our liberty, not our diversity, not our security, not our government, but our liberty! And don't ever forget it!

Answer 4

World Wars I & II is the immediate short term answer.
( Both labor and plants were decimated.)

Availability of resources in both quantity and diversity
is another factor. ( Europe and G. Britain in particular,
had to import a lot of material.)

A third factor was that the U.S. was not handicapped
by old infrastructure and institutions.
A more efficient plant is the new one designed to latest standards & requirements, not the one
restricted in its scope by existing conditions.
(The U.S. steel industry recently has suffered from the 'old plant` syndrome.)

(The same principle applies to workforce formation.)

Answer 5

All the smart, industrious Europeans and Englanders emmigrated to the USA.

The fact that Europe and England lost most of their industrial producing capacity during WWII helped also.

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