Study On American Government's Oil Policy 1941-1945

After the Second World War beginning,oil confoungs Americans. Domestic supplies shrink daily. Demand increas in geometric progressions. The country growes more and more dependent on oil from abroad. The crucial link between oil and national security, once solely the concern of military and government officials,has become a matter of public discourse. The foreign oil policy have involved not only relations between governments and oil companies, or among separate oil companies,but also relations within governments themselves and among different ones. Leaders of various segments of the oil industry and leaders of government each has ideas about the directions Anerican oil policy.Wartime oil policy had been predicated on the importance of foreign oil to the war effort and to postwar defense.government planners conceived of the safety of the nation in term of hemispheric self-sufficiency.They aimed at ensuring enough reserves in the Western Hemisphere to sustain the country in wartime or,if need be,during a peace. Toward that end the development of Middle Eastern Oil became essential.The dissertatiaon makes an analysis of the process of the American foreign oil policy forming. The dissertation consists of introduction, main body, conclusion notes, and references.Chapter One analyses the background of the American Government's foreign oil policy forming. Chapter Two makes analysis of the American'policy on foreign oil,froml941 to 1945.Chapter Three centres on the American Governmemt's oil policy to the English and theJapan.Chapter Four elaborates the American Government's oil policy to Iran and Saudi Arabia.