Huge stimulus during World War II took the US out of the Depression.

This is a historical-economic causal claim, judged by the consensus of economic historians. True: the mainstream view holds that the massive fiscal spending of World War II was the main force that ended the Great Depression in the US. Mostly true: the consensus treats wartime spending as a major or decisive factor, while noting that recovery was already under way before the war or that monetary factors also mattered. Mixed: scholars are substantially divided on whether war spending, rather than other factors (for example, monetary expansion after 1933), ended the Depression. Mostly false: the dominant research holds that recovery came mainly from other causes, so the claim overstates the war's role. False: the evidence shows that wartime spending did not contribute to ending the Depression.

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1. E1 World War II Fiscal Policies and the End of the Great Depression | The Journal of Economic History | Cambridge Core Cambridge Core (The Journal of Economic History)

   “Fiscal policies were not the most important factor in the 1933 through 1940 phase of the recovery, but they became the most important factor after 1940, when the recovery was less than half-complete.”

2. E2 What Ended the Great Depression? The Journal of Economic History (Christina D. Romer, University of California, Berkeley) · December 1992

   “contributed almost nothing to the recovery before 1942.”

3. E3 What Ended the Great Depression? The Journal of Economic History (Christina D. Romer, University of California, Berkeley) · December 1992

   “Thus, World War II may indeed have helped to end the Great Depression in the United States, but its expansionary benefits worked initially through monetary developments rather than”

On checking, the evidence does not settle the claim under its criteria.