various assassinations, the brink of nuclear apocalypse, an unpopular political war away from home that caused a social movement, and political espionage.
It’s like we’re cursed.
various assassinations, the brink of nuclear apocalypse, an unpopular political war away from home that caused a social movement, and political espionage.
It’s like we’re cursed.
WW1 really was a different story. The US adopted the standards of its allies when possible, or otherwise just couldn’t use stuff from their allies. We produced things for our own use, but not for everyone on our side of the conflict. Plus WW1 was kind of a massive resource pit for everyone involved bc of trench warfare.
The fact that we couldnt share resources among allies in WWI is part of where the push for adopting a standard came from. And the reason it ultimately became the US’s standard is because the US production was removed from the conflict. Meanwhile European factories were getting bombed. Before the adoption of our standards, our allies were actually paying to establish factories in the US that would build to European standards.
WWI also had more specialized parts which was a mess, and the Europeans hadnt kicked that by WWII the way that the US did. We had already recognized the importance of standardization outside of military purposes by that point, so we were ahead of the game there.
Its more like WWII started it, and our persistence post WWII to push for our standards as the new ISO standards sealed it. ISO didnt exist until after WWII. It basically was created to be “the league of nations / UN for things”