It increases as they need to ship supplies to the army for medical uses or ammo such like. They need to rapidly produce weapons and ammo so that they can continue to fight on. Medicine such as penicillin was mass produced as it stopped infection rate so the mass production of that drug helped in ww2
Increase, if you’re to prepare for something, your gonna wanna be able to have the supplies to solve it, which puts a demand for it, when there’s a demand for it, more has to be made in “production”
The main reason why the Catholic Church was committed to defending the literal meaning of the Bible passages is because they feared that people would stray from the church if they started to develop their own, different interpretations of the Bible.
The choice that was not a factor is America gained European territory after the war and was able to export products to Europe and Africa without economic barriers. America in fact sent much aid to European nations under the Marshal Plan to help rebuild european countries.