Private European and American corporations invested heavily in the Belgian Congo after World War I (1914–18). They developed plantations and mines, making the colony an important source of natural resources such as cotton, oil palms, coffee, cacao, rubber, gold, diamonds, copper, tin, cobalt, uranium, and zinc. During World War II (1939–45), the colony was an important source of uranium for the United States.
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