Word: baku
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before Pearl Harbor the U.S. and Britain's fleets drew on the vast oil fields of the Western Hemisphere. Soviet Russia and the Armies of the Middle East had Baku and Batum. Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore were next door to the Dutch East Indies. The anti-Axis powers of the world controlled 97.5% of world production. It was as simple as that...
...Japanese have closed the United Nations' filling station in the far Pacific. Adolf Hitler, if he drives into the Middle East, may capture Baku and Batum. Then the Axis would not only have oil enough for its war machine (after destroyed mills and refineries are repaired), but would force the United Nations into complete dependence on the Western Hemisphere...
...Take the Baku oilfields...
...long as Adolf Hitler retains even a small foothold in Crimea, he has a perfect springboard for his promised second Russian offensive in the spring: a jump from the south smack into the rich oilfields of Baku...
...showed also that the Nazi and Communist propaganda machines had lost none of their old spirit. Berlin, having called Rostov "the door to the Caucasus" and "the spigot of the oil of Baku" when they took the place, now called it "just another town." Russian spokesmen, having belittled the loss of the Donets Basin on the grounds that all industries were either removed or sabotaged beyond recovery, now gravely explained: "It is obviously easier to rebuild an existing plant than to erect a new one, particularly when skilled workers and technicians who are familiar with the damaged works are available...