This category includes sub-categories and articles about economic aid also known as international aid, overseas aid, or foreign aid during the Second World War as the help, mostly economic, which was provided to communities or countries as the result of the war, and the humanitarian crisis it created, or to achieve a socioeconomic, political and military objectives. Humanitarian aid was therefore primarily used for emergency relief due to effects of war, while development aid aims was used to create long-term sustainable economic growth and military assistance to the armed forces.