Question

How did wartime production in the communities in and around Savannah and Brunswick during World War II affect these communities economically?

A.
Wartime needs forced the communities to undergo an abrupt shift from industrial to agricultural production, forcing many local factory operations out of business.

B.
Farms in these communities experienced a sharp rise in production and profit as they became the primary sources of agricultural goods for the US military.

C.
Shipyards provided thousands of jobs and benefited the economies of the communities significantly as income from these jobs was reinvested in local businesses.

D.
Efforts to construct bomber plants supported by local governments led to a substantial rise in taxes in the communities, devastating the local economies.

Answer 1

C.

Shipbuilding in Savannah and Brunswick (Liberty-ship and other wartime yards) created thousands of jobs, drew workers to the area, and pumped payroll dollars into local businesses — spurring housing, retail and service growth and substantially boosting the local economies. The other choices misstate the wartime effect (there was not a forced shift to agriculture, farms did not become the military’s primary suppliers at the expense of industry, nor did bomber-plant construction produce a tax-driven economic collapse).