How did World War II affect the American economy?

During WW 2 the efforts of production were concentrated mainly on goods that would directly benefit the military. These include of weapons, clothes, and other miscellaneous goods used in the war. Increasing the production of these types of goods lowers the overall production of consumer goods such as foods, clothes, cars, etc. This can be represented in something called the Production Possibilities Curve. This is a graph that depicts the amount of production of both military and consumer goods and how both are inversely related; meaning that if military production goes up then consumer production goes down and vise versa. This leads us into the rationing the US had to go through in order for this to happen. Many had to do without things they would normally have bought such as underwear and tires. Now because of the increased demand for people to work in these factories, jobs were created and more money started to circulate. This combined with the limited spending caused by the rationing resulted in a rise of general wealth throughout the population. Now after the war was over these factories that had been working like crazy to mass produce military goods found themselves needing to produce consumer goods instead. So they started to produce tons of consumer goods which promoted heavy spending by the general population. This combined with a sort of technological boom created a huge increase in our economic growth as a country.