Discuss the Impacts of Oil on the world in the 1900’s.

Prompt: Contingency and Environmental Determinism – Daniel Yergin concludes his epic history of oil with the observation that “oil would achieve the capacity to make or break nations and would be decisive in the great political and economic struggles of the twentieth century.” (762) This sounds an awful lot like environmental determinism. How, in fact, was oil’s significance impact on key events since 1900 actually contingent upon human actions and decisions? Must use the books “The Prize” by Daniel Yergin and “Thicker than Oil” by Rachel Bronson (attached).