While the emerging cold war, the geopolitical value of the Middle East became contemporaneously linked to the policy of containment to the Soviet Union by Washington.

• 第二次世界大战以后，美国认识到中东地区丰富的石油资源在西欧复兴，以及美国经济发展中具有举足轻重的作用，遂将中东政策置于对外战略的显著位置。