Today's American Minute — Chaim Weizmann & Birth of Modern Israel
Oil & World War I, Kaiser, Sultan, Chaim Weizmann & Birth of Modern Israel - American Minute with Bill Federer
Chaim Weizmann & Birth of Modern Israel Kaiser Oil & World War I Sultan
In 1898, Sultan Abdul Hamid the Second purchased rifles from Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II for use in subduing revolts and annihilating Turkey's Armenian population. In exchange, the Sultan granted Germany rights to build a Berlin-Baghdad Railway to access Iraq's oil fields.