The United States did not have to deal with rebuilding its home front. In actuality, the United States ' economy was better then it had been before the war. By the end of the war, the United States held two-thirds of the world 's gold, and created two-thirds of its world industrial production. Economy in the United States grew rapidly after the war.
But while the United States was booming, the countries of Western Europe were suffering from the brunt of the damage done by WW2. Transportation and exchange were ruined, the imports in which many of the countries desperately needed became too expensive for them to pay, and their markets became weakened. Seeing that Western Europe needed serious economic help, the United States sent billions of dollars worth of goods to Western Europe. Through this aid, the countries of Western Europe began to rebuild their economies. By 1947, the nations of Europe were achieving the amount of production in which they were creating before the war. Economic recovery seemed to be a short road in which the