This flood of new residents placed demands on city and county services across the state. military services trained thousands of American soldiers, sailors, pilots, and aircrews at Texas bases. War and Navy Departments also authorized expanding and adding to Texas military bases, which created more employment for thousands in construction trades. To fill those jobs, Texans left farms and small towns and went to cities. Many Texas companies landed manufacturing contracts, soon creating new jobs of all kinds. Congress and President Franklin Roosevelt called for American businesses to produce more military goods. Responding to the start of the war in Europe in September 1939, the U.S. During the Great Depression of the 1930s the New Deal’s programs made the federal government more influential in the state. World War II produced social, political, and economic consequences for Texas.
