They stoped importing British goods into the colonies
Camp David Accords, agreements between Israel and Egypt signed on September 17, 1978, that led in the following year to a peace treaty between those two countries, the first such treaty between Israel and any of its Arab neighbours.
Becase of its location it had the upper hand on war, and material's etc hope this helps
Germany because they were the ones who started the war by invading Poland with an army and the Japanese when they bombed Pearl Harbor the knew it would start a war and they were prepared for it