Britain's original motive for wanting to control the Middle East was primarily strategic: by dominating a belt of territory stretching from Egypt to Iran it could control the route between Europe and India.
The main reason why Alexander continued his campaign of conquest after this goal had been achieved was because the surrounding areas were easily-conquerable, and doing so was advantageous economically.
During WWII, George C. Marshall served as chief of staff of the US army from September 1, 1939 until November 18, 1945.
During his tenure he helped train US soldiers in modern warfare as an instructor at the Army War College in Pennsylvania.
He inherited an outdated and poorly equiped army, so he was also responsible for the modernization of the army and co-ordinated a large scale expansion of the military.
While Marshal wrote the document that would become the central strategy for Allied operations in Europe, Dwight Eisenhower would become the Supreme Commander of Operation Overlord.
<span>ver 116,000 U.S. citizens died in World War I, making it the third bloodiest war in U.S. history behind World War II and the U.S. Civil War. Though the reasons for the United States’ entry into World War I are many, one of the primary reasons was the Zimmerman telegram, a communique sent from Germany to Mexico, but intercepted and deciphered by British code breakers. The Zimmerman telegram threatened the U.S. territories, thus shifting public sentiment in favor of the Allied Powers of Great Britain, France and Russia.</span>
