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Azerbaijan in World War II. The Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic entered World War II with the Soviet Union after the German declaration of war on June 22, 1941. Azerbaijan's oilfields were enticing to the Germans due to the USSR's heavy dependency on Caucasus oil – setting the scene for German campaigns attempting to capture and seize ...
During World War II, Azerbaijan played a crucial role in the strategic energy policy of the Soviet Union; much of the Soviet Union's oil on the Eastern Front was supplied by Baku. By the Decree of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR in February 1942, the commitment of more than 500 workers and employees of the oil industry of Azerbaijan was awarded ...
The Azerbaijan SSR supplied much of the Soviet Union's gas and oil during World War II, and was a strategically important region. [191] Although the June 1941 German invasion of the Soviet Union reached the Greater Caucasus in July 1942, the Germans did not invade Azerbaijan. [192]
Victory. 800,000 Azerbaijanis fought in Soviet Army, 400,000 of whom perished. Up to 40,000 Azerbaijanis, mainly former POW volunteers, fought in the Wehrmacht. Soviet–Afghan War. (1979–1989) Soviet Union. Soviet Azerbaijan. Afghan Mujahideen. Defeat.
Battle of Baku. Part of the Armenian–Azerbaijani War in the Caucasus Campaign of World War I & Southern Front of the Russian Civil War. Ottoman artillery bombarding the city. Date. 26 August 1918 – 14 September 1918 [1] Location. Baku, Azerbaijan. 40°27′N 49°47′E / 40.450°N 49.783°E / 40.450; 49.783.
Baku during World War II. Baku occupied a special place in the plans of Nazi Germany. The head of the Foreign Policy Department of the NSDAP, Alfred Rosenberg, drew up a special "Plan for the management of the Caucasus", which assumed the inclusion of Baku in the sphere of influence of the Third Reich. According to the plan, it was necessary to ...
The Iran crisis of 1946, also known as the Azerbaijan Crisis (Persian: غائلهٔ آذربایجان, romanized: Qā'ele-ye Āzarbāyejān) in the Iranian sources, was one of the first crises of the Cold War, sparked by the refusal of Joseph Stalin 's Soviet Union to relinquish occupied Iranian territory despite repeated assurances.
The Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic[d], also referred to as the Azerbaijani Soviet Socialist Republic, Azerbaijan SSR, Azerbaijani SSR, AzSSR, Soviet Azerbaijan or simply Azerbaijan, was one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union between 1922 and 1991. Created on 28 April 1920 when the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic ...