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World War II and the arrival of the Americans
2010
Overview
Though the Persian Gulf remained but a side show in the worldwide fighting
that took place in World War II from 1939-45, the theater proved important
for several reasons. It provided to Great Britain and the allies a chief source
of petroleum. By seizing the region, Axis leaders aimed to take those supplies, and use the greater Gulf area as an embarkation point for a possible
attack into the Soviet Union’s southern underbelly. Throughout the war
the region remained important, as it had been for millennia, because of its
strategic travel and communications route between Europe and Asia; the
Allies would have found it much more difficult to move men and materiel
between the Atlantic and Pacific theaters had they lost the Persian Gulf. And
finally, the Gulf became a principal lifeline in Washington and London’s
strategic initiative to provide material aid to their beleaguered Russian ally.
The Gulf region, in other words, held a strategic significance in World War II
much greater than the dearth of fighting might otherwise suggest.
Publisher
Routledge,Taylor & Francis Group
ISBN
9780415778718, 9780415778701, 0415778719, 0415778700
