In the coastal cities of China, Japanese troops were on the march. In Nazi Germany, Hitler had put his country back to work building a military arsenal. By 1939, the Great Depression was over, "over there," while in the United States pepole still struggled to end the crisis. Their dreams of peace and prosperity were celebrated at World's Fairs in New York and San Francisco--but prosperity did not come in peacetime. The "Okie" migrants, whose plight had come to symbolize the hardships of depression, joined millions of others who finally found work in new defense industries. While the New Deal changed America forever, it was war that ended the Great Depression.