Oil and US: History

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David S Painter. "Oil." Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy, 2d ed.. Ed.
Alexander DeConde, Fredrik Logevall, and Richard Dean Burns. New York:
Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2002.
http://www.americanforeignrelations.com/O-W/Oil.html

Check out section 1 Oil and World Power. Note for the section:
(a) athwart (prep): "ACROSS"   www.m-w.com
(b) "Iraq was carved out of the Ottoman Empire by the French and British as
agreed in the Sykes-Picot Agreement. The Sykes-Picot agreement was a secret
agreement between UK and France with the assent of Imperial Russia, defining
their respective spheres of influence and control in West Asia after the
expected downfall of the Ottoman Empire during the World War I. The
Agreement was concluded on 16 May 1916. On 11 November 1920 it became a
League of Nations mandate under British control with the name 'State of Iraq
.'"
Iraq
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq
(c) In the wake of Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878), the 1878 Treaty of Berlin
was signed among great powers and Romania became soverign, which joined the
Axis in late 1940.
(d) David S Painter, Associate Professor, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University.
http://explore.georgetown.edu/people/painterd/?action=viewpubli
(many articles/books on oil)


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