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The Berlin-Baghdad Railroad 1899-1940
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M092 Creator: Mark Mychajuk ’20 International Relations Designed and largely built by Imperial Germany prior to World War 1, the Berlin-Baghdad Railroad was an act of Imperialism. Germany hoped to gain access to Middle Eastern oil in the Ottoman Empire and new routes of attack on the colonial possessions of Britain and…