Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Balkans 50,000,000 people, in Turkey 16,000,000, in Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Trans-Jordan, and Iraq 5,400,000 more had, whether they knew it or not, an acute interest in these questions-and many of them knew it, 'for hundreds of thousands were under arms and being called to arms. From the Adriatic to the Caspian the little nations of eastern Europe and western Asia trembled and prepared for the worst-not knowing what the worst might...
...pipelines from Kirkuk to Haifa and Tripoli and from Mosul to Alexandretta, guarding the oil that fuels the Allies' eastern Mediterranean naval forces. Their assemblage of air power headquartered at Aqaba (on the eastern finger-tip of the Red Sea), has auxiliary fighting bases scattered far up into Iraq...