Webercise - World War II Natural Resources: Oil

The Need for Resources https://www.histclo.com/essay/war/ww2/cou/ger/mil/msw/g

mw-nr.html
What was the importance of
oil toward warfare during
World War II?
Germany and Oil https://www.histclo.com/essay/war/ww2/eco/raw/oil/w2ero-
ger.html
Identify the country that
originally supplied Germany
with oil prior to Operation
Barbarossa?
This area of the Soviet Union
was overrun by the German
Army to secure the oil fields.
Hint: “Summer 1942”
What did Germany do to
ensure it had adequate oil
supplies once the war
immediately began in
September 1939?
Synthetic oil plants were
located in what area of
Germany?
What is the name of the
process used to produce
synthetic fuels?
Germany and the https://www.military-history.org/blog/barbarossa-and-oil.htm
invasion of the Soviet
Union.
Historians recognize Germany
failed to win the war was
caused by Hitler’s many
strategic blunders; their army
lacked sufficient amounts of
mechanization and relied on
this animal for labor in place
of vehicles.
Oil Strategy in the Pacific https://www.e-
and World War II education.psu.edu/egee120/book/export/html/237
Japan experienced “Victory
fever” after it secured and
gained oil fields in these
three major cities after it
invaded them.
Hint: located under
“Balikpapan Oil Fields
Destroyed but Victory Fever
grips Japan.”
This U.S. Navy Admiral’s
strategy for success was to
“safeguard American supply
lines/resources while
blocking Japanese oil lines.”
Hint: found under “Victory
fever gives way to
desperation in the Pacific.”

Suicide pilots, or _________

were the result of the
Japanese Navy’s lack of oil
during the war.
Hint: found under “Oil
shortage and desperation
lead to Kamikazes and
eventual fall of the Imperial
Way.”
By 1944, this island nation in
the Pacific became a major
base of operations for the
Americans providing 120,000
barrels per day of aviation
gasoline. The Americans
began using up to six times as
much gasoline as the
Japanese at this location.
Hint: found under “Oil
shortage and desperation
lead to Kamikazes and
eventual fall of the Imperial
Way.”
The Pacific War Online http://pwencycl.kgbudge.com/O/i/Oil.htm
Encyclopedia

Oil shortages at the start of

the war caused the Allies to
develop synthetic _______
from oil.

The U.S. was a major oil

producer that producing ___
billion barrels of oil per year,
which was 63%.
Oil and world power https://www.americanforeignrelations.com/O-W/Oil-Oil-and-
world-power.html

The U.S. was a major oil

producer for the first half of
the twentieth century whose
world oil production
accounted for __ percent by
1941.
Why did the U.S. and Soviet
fare better than Germany and
Japan with regards to their oil
supplies?
These “key weapons
systems” of the war all oil-
powered:
International Oil https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/extremeoil/history/1930.html

By the war’s end, the U.S.

began to worry about the
future of the nation.
President Roosevelt had a
meeting with the king of this
Middle Eastern country which
effectively established
relations with this nation.
Identify the name of this
country and its leader:
Big Inch Pipelines of WW https://aoghs.org/petroleum-in-war/oil-pipelines/
II
What were the names of the
two major oil carrying
pipelines called that were
located within the U.S. during
the war?
What was the starting and
ending locations of these
pipelines?

Interactives
Watch the video https://pennstate.kanopy.com/video/prize-war-and-oil
and write a 2-3
sentence
response of oil’s
contribution
toward each
major powers’
ability to
conduct war
during World
War II.
Take note of the https://www.nationalgeographic.org/interactive/world-war-ii-pacific/
timeline of
events
surrounding oil
and watch the
short video
attached.
Indicate the
dates when
significant
events involving
oil occurred and
briefly explain
https://wikivisually.com/wiki/Oil_campaign_chronology_of_World_War_II