I'm going out on a limb here and figuring that you're talking about a specific poster that rings a bell. Basically, it portrays the Germans as evil people, and inspires young British men to enlist in the army to fight them.
Japan was able to recover so fast due to the Korean War. There was a huge surge of United Nation and United States troops that provided money and jobs. Japan was able to serve as a repair hub as well as a logistics base during that time.
United States control of Puerto Rico’s government with Puerto Ricans
becoming U.S. citizens after 1917; the Philippines providing a naval
base to guard U.S. trade in Asia, which in turn provided some
improvement in Filipino schools, roads, and healthcare.
The OPEC oil embargo was an event where the 12 countries that made up OPEC stopped selling oil to the United States. In response to the oil crisis, the United States took steps to become increasingly energy independent.
