war economy
Conflict-driven industrial system
A war economy is an economic system reorganized around military production and wartime needs.
Governments typically redirect industrial output toward weapons and supplies, ration consumer goods, and expand state control over labor and resources.
The term can describe actual wartime conditions or, critically, peacetime economies that maintain military-industrial priorities: Critics argue the country has operated as a permanent war economy since 1945.
Limiting distribution during scarcity
- scarcityInsufficiency of something needed
- shortageDeficient supply of necessities
- sacrificeGiving up something precious
- belt-tighteningReducing expenditures deliberately
cutbacks · frugality · hardship · poverty · deprivation · coupons · ration cards · quotas
Mandatory military enrollment
- draftPreliminary version of text
- troop deploymentStationing soldiers operationally
- military buildupExpansion of armed forces
- defense spendingGovernment outlay for armed forces
arms race · rearmament · combat readiness · national service · civil defense · requisition · commandeering · manpower
Industrial product creation
- munitionsMilitary weapons and ammunition
- armamentsCollective military weapons
- factoriesIndustrial production facilities
- armsUpper body limbs
ammunition · tanks · aircraft · shipbuilding · ordnance · military-industrial · production lines · assembly
Fitting to new conditions
- resourcefulnessAbility to solve problems creatively
- ingenuityClever, original thinking
- self-sufficiencyIndependence from outside aid
- enduranceSustained effort capacity
subsistence · improvisation · makeshift · salvage · recycling · scrap drives · victory gardens · ersatz
rationing
Limiting distribution during scarcity
- scarcityInsufficiency of something needed
- shortageDeficient supply of necessities
- sacrificeGiving up something precious
belt-tightening · cutbacks · frugality · hardship · poverty · deprivation · coupons · ration cards · quotas · allocations
conscription
Mandatory military enrollment
- draftPreliminary version of text
- troop deploymentStationing soldiers operationally
- military buildupExpansion of armed forces
defense spending · arms race · rearmament · combat readiness · national service · civil defense · requisition · commandeering · manpower · enlistment
manufacturing
Industrial product creation
- munitionsMilitary weapons and ammunition
- armamentsCollective military weapons
- factoriesIndustrial production facilities
arms · ammunition · tanks · aircraft · shipbuilding · ordnance · military-industrial · production lines · assembly · arsenal
adaptation
Fitting to new conditions
- resourcefulnessAbility to solve problems creatively
- ingenuityClever, original thinking
- self-sufficiencyIndependence from outside aid
endurance · subsistence · improvisation · makeshift · salvage · recycling · scrap drives · victory gardens · ersatz · repurposing
- wartimerationing, evacuations, home front, air raids, mobilization
- economic historystock market crash, Industrial Revolution, trade routes, Great Depression, gold standard
- Nazi GermanyAdolf Hitler, Hitler, Nazi, Nazis, Nazi Party
- war economiesmilitary spending, defense contracts, arms trade, looting, plunder
- WWI Homefrontliberty bonds, victory gardens, home front, home support, volunteer efforts
- economicssupply and demand, inflation, GDP, GNP, gross domestic product
war, economy, warfare, economic, wars, economical, warlike, antiwar, bellicose