Because they never knew when one of their family members would be sold to a separate place. They had no way to stop things from happening.
The Axis powers (Germany, Italy, Japan) battled for the control of the Suez Canal to acquire oil in the Middle East and source raw materials from Asia.
Oil was a critical commodity to increase modernization of its armies, Britain which by then controlled the canal had the first modern army due to the constant supply of the commodity.
<span>In the year 507 B.C., the Athenian leader Cleisthenes introduced a system of political reforms that he called demokratia, or “rule by the people.” This system was comprised of three separate institutions: the ekklesia, a sovereign governing body that wrote laws and dictated foreign policy; the boule, a council of representatives from the ten Athenian tribes; and the dikasteria, the popular courts in which citizens argued cases before a group of lottery-selected jurors. Although this Athenian democracy would survive for only two centuries, Cleisthenes’ invention was one of ancient Greece’s most enduring contributions to the modern world.</span>
Most of the unemployed people went to work in war-related industries and those that didn't go to war invested in war bonds.
