This is a true statement.
John D Rockefeller. At one point he was the world's wealthiest man and controlled 90% of all oil in the US.
It was a small spot easily able to have been taken over. It was a pawn compared to other places
The term ethnic cleansing came into use to describe the slaughter of Bosnian Muslims.
The sinking of the Lustania? I think that was the name of the cruise ship, and was a rallying cry for the US into ww1, as Americans died in the transit.