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CACHE COUNTY SINCE WORLD WAR II
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A goes without saying that World War II changed American society. The type of society that existed before the war and the type that emerged afterwards were decidedly different. That difference is apparent in all regions of the United States, whether urban or rural, and is as apparent in Cache County as in other more urbanized regions of the state of Utah. The United States had entered World War II from the worst economic depression in the nation's history. The experience of the Great Depression also contributed to the remarkable transition of American society. In response to the economic codapse, the federal government, through President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal agenda, began implementing a wide variety of programs designed to counter the economic hardships. Although historians generady concede that the New Deal was largely ineffective in ending the Depression, it nevertheless established a legacy of state, local, and federal partnership which has endured to this day. Although it was the economic stimulus of World War II which ultimately reversed the Great Depression, the government programs of the 1930s and 1940s 301
