The League of Nations was formed to unify many countries. It wasn't very efficient. The United Nations was essentially an improved version of the League of Nations.
In the United States, the purpose of the War Production Board (WPB) was to "<span>oversee the conversion of peacetime industry to war industry," since many private business were helping the war effort by producing goods, and the effort needed to be coordinated. </span>
By the time World War II ended, most American officials agreed that the best defense against the Soviet threat was a strategy called “containment.” In his famous “Long Telegram,” the diplomat George Kennan (1904-2005) explained the policy: The Soviet Union, he wrote, was “a political force committed fanatically to the belief that with the U.S. there can be no permanent modus vivendi [agreement between parties that disagree].” As a result, America’s only choice was the “long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies.” “It must be the policy of the United States,” he declared before Congress in 1947, “to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation…by outside pressures.” This way of thinking would shape American foreign policy for the next four decades.
Roman culture influenced the development of Western Civilization.
Explanation:
Because Latin was the language of the Roman Catholic Church and of acade- mics, it naturally influenced other languages even the non-Romance languages. Romans most lasting and great contribution to the western civilization is the law. The earliest Roman law mostly dealt with the rights of the Roman citizens
