<span>Corruption and improper actions can be found and rooted out, leading to more ethical business practices and growth by the businesses who do follow the rules. Those companies who do take a tack that is against the consumers' interests will be exposed and driven out of the marketplace, leading to fewer businesses willing to take such risks.</span>
The correct answer is - oil.
The Japanese Empire, under the rule of Emperor Hirohito, in order to manage to continue with the expansion and gain new territories, needed much more oil than what its supplies where.
The need for oil meant that Japan will attack the places in the region where there are solid amounts of oil reserves, and they did. They attacked and conquered parts of Southeast Asia, and got hold onto the large oil reserves that they desperately needed for their military machinery.
Germany signed the <em>Treaty of Versailles</em> with the Allies,officially ending World War 1.The British economist John Maynard Keynes left the treaty conference in protest. In his The Economic Consequences of the Peace 1919, Keynes predicted that the stiff war reparations and other harsh terms imposed on Germany by the Treaty would lead to financial collapse of Germany,which in turn would have serious economic and political repercussions on Europe and the World.
On June 5,1919 ,Keynes wrote a note to Lloyd George PM of England,that he was resigning his post in protest of the impending devastation of Europe.
In his book Keynes wrote""if we aim at the impoverishment of Central Europe,vengeance,I dare say will not limp.Nothing can then delay for very long the forces of Reaction and the despairing convulsions of Revolution,before which the horrors of the later German war will fade into nothing,and which will destroy, whoever is victor,the civilisation and the progress of our generation.""
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The Office of Price Administration (OPA), created in April, 1941 in anticipation of a coming war economy, soon froze many consumer prices and rationed common items such as gasoline, coffee, butter, shoes, sugar, and meat. ... Consumers could then choose food according to individual preferences (Ward 1994).
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