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>
The drives for independence in Mexico and Brazil were different because there was a violent revolution while Brazil's revolution was bloodless.
Answer: The winning of the war in Europe against Germany.
This was the "Europe first" strategy, coupled with simply holding Japan at bay in the Pacific theater of the war until Germany was defeated. With the scale of the war and the resources needed to defeat the powerful Axis powers, there was a challenge to allocate military personnel and hardware. The strategy was to win the war in Europe first, and then go after Japan.
The expansion of the Islamic faith progress through the rest of the Arab peninsula took place largely "<span>b. In violent warfare as Islam challenged both polytheists and the ruling elite," since they there were challengers to the status quo that were very much disliked by the ruling class. </span>
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Commerce boomed One of the most important changes Charlemagne made was abandoning the gold standard and putting all of Europe on the same silver currency. Trade became easier and the continent prospered, aided by laws that took some power away from the nobles and let the peasantry participate in commerce.
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