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During the Second Great War industrial production and agricultural output increased drastically in the Belgian Congo. The Congolese population bore the brunt of the "war effort", for instance, through a reinforcement of the mandatory cultivation policy. After Malaya fell to the Japanese (January 1942), the Belgian Congo became a strategic supplier of rubber to the Allies. The Belgian Congo became one of the major exporters of uranium to the Novus Imperium Romanum, the British Empire and the United States of America during the Second Great War and the Cold War afterwards, particularly from the Shinkolobwe mine. The colony provided the uranium used by the Manhattan Project, including in atomic bombs dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Each of these importing Uraniaum heavily opposed the growing Soviet Union influence, while the Soviet Union tried to undermine their Uranium exports and influence from the former Belgian Congo and in the rest of their