Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German succeeded north of Rostov, he might still have the power to crash down through the Caucasus into the Allies' last local source of oil, the fields of Iraq, Persia, Bahrein...
...Burmese masterpiece and nearly three years waiting for such a chance. Ever since the war's outbreak he had been in oil-rich hot spots, scheming their destruction: in Rumania's oilfields, where the Gestapo nabbed him (but had to release him because Rumania was neutral); in Iraq, when pro-Nazi Rashid Ali El-Gailani took over; in the Dutch East Indies, where he made mistakes he learned not to make a second time...
Bolstering his defense line with reinforcements as fast as careening trucks could take them forward, the Auk hoped for time to prepare for the blow. Some of the reinforcements were seasoned brown soldiers from the British Ninth and Tenth Armies in Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Iran. Others were pink-skinned newcomers to the desert-due for a bad beating from the sizzling sun, if from nothing else. At last it was officially disclosed that U.S. tank troops had been fighting with the British, under Major Henry Cabot Lodge of Boston...
...stubborn neutrality into collaboration with Germany. Then Russia would have the foe on her left flank, within reach of the Caucasian oilfields. But the threat would be greater than that. Once in the Near East, the German would be near British oil-the great wealth of the Iraq fields. These fields (with Russia's) are the last big oil source for a vast strategic area in which the Japanese have already snatched the rest of the wells. The sub-harried tankers of the United Nations could not make up the deficit for many exhausting months to come...
...Middle East as the "logical" point for the long-awaited Axis spring offensive. President Roosevelt announced that U.S. service troops were already in the Middle East -power-station and arsenal for the United Nations -and that Lend-Lease aid would be extended on north to Iran and Iraq...