The Twentieth Century, The Fifties And Sixties, The U.s. Oil Security Policy In The Middle East

The United States started to permeate toward Middle East and usurp the petroleum of Middle East after World War I, but it was smaller to some extent. The American petroleum financial group relied on the economy that it was strong, and the military real strength to discriminate against England and controlled Middle East petroleum resources gradually after World War â…¡.Under the background of Cold War, fighting the petroleum hegemony was one of the focuses that the United States and the Soviet Union resisted each other. Dependence of the United States and its allies to the petroleum in Middle East, ineluctably involved the national security problem. From the global strategy and national security, the United States' important and strategic target in Middle East was at American national security, chastened the Soviet's extend, insured the United States and its western allies of petroleum supply and transport safety. This text mainly inquired into 1950s-1960s formation, contents, and substances of American Middle East's policy of petroleum safety and its gain and loss. The whole text was divided into four parts. The first part: It carried on concept's authenticate, main introduction of domestic and international research dynamic state and the problem that it existed. The second part: It was the main text point, elaborated the formation process of petroleum safety policy in Middle East of the United States, insured the American national security, chastened Soviets petroleum to extend, and guarantied the western allies petroleum to supply safety, which was the United States the outward policy's important and strategic target to the safety policy of petroleum of Middle East particularly. At the foundation that the second part discussed on, the third part talked about the United States building the natural cover that was set up to keep Soviets petroleum influence from going down south, controlled Middle East petroleum resources, maintained the petroleum charter power, insured the western petroleum to supply and transport safety, kept Soviets petroleum from entering Western Europe, chastened " newcomer" and carried on the total analysis to the American petroleum of Middle East safety policy's contents and substances from four aspects. The fourth part: carried on the valuation to the safe policy of American petroleum of Middle East fromfour aspects, analyzed its gain and loss.