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Prior to World War II, Soviet Azerbaijan was one of the world's largest producers of oil, oil products, and petroleum equipment, hugely contributing to the Soviet Union to be ranked next to the United States and Canada in oil production. Despite ongoing military actions, Baku remained the main provider of fuels and lubricants, sending 23.5 ...
The mechanized German army aimed to secure a large supply of oil. Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, provided an overwhelming share of Soviet oil production.In an agreement of February 1940 following the August 1939 Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, Germany and the Soviet Union committed to exchange German machinery, manufactures, and technology for Soviet resources.
The Allied oil campaign of World War II [4]: 11 was an aerial bombing campaign conducted by the RAF and the USAAF against facilities supplying Nazi Germany with petroleum, oil, and lubrication (POL) products. It formed part of the immense Allied strategic bombing effort during the war.
Soviet oil refinery, 1934. Soviet industrialization of the early 1930s required massive debt expansions. [36] To attempt to decrease this debt, grain was sold in large quantities in world markets. [36] German debt also soared with increased state spending. [37] Both countries turned more to economic isolation and autarky. [37]
The Battle of the Caucasus was a series of Axis and Soviet operations in the Caucasus as part of the Eastern Front of World War II.On 25 July 1942, German troops captured Rostov-on-Don, opening the Caucasus region of the southern Soviet Union to the Germans and threatening the oil fields beyond at Maikop, Grozny, and ultimately Baku.
This was the first large-scale strategic bombing during World War II [5]: 53 and the first attack on the German interior - it inflicted little damage. [6]: 9, 171 Just 24 of 96 bombers dispatched to Ruhr Area power stations and refineries found the target area, [7] setting several oil plants on fire. [8] May 16/17, 1940: Oil installations in Ruhr
Operation Pike; Part of World War II: Oil refinery in Baku. 1912.The French diplomat René Massigli, in a report to Paris, noted that US oil engineers observed "as a result of the manner in which the oil fields have been exploited, the earth is so saturated with oil that fire could spread immediately to the entire neighbouring region; it would be months before it could be extinguished and ...
Military production during World War II was the production or mobilization of arms, ammunition, personnel and financing by the belligerents of the war, from the occupation of Austria in early 1938 to the surrender and occupation of Japan in late 1945.