The British attacks at Festubert forced the Germans back and diverted Removing reserves from the French but the French gained Getting little more ground , despite firing double the amount of artillery ammunition , at the cost of many casualties to both sides .

Combles became Becoming a backwater until the Battle Hostile_encounter of the Somme in 1916 , when it was used Using as a shelter for reserves , supplies and engineer stores and a staging area for reinforcements .

The operation stemmed Creating from Nazi Germany 's ideological aim of conquering Conquering the western Soviet Union so that it could be repopulated by Germans ( ) , and to also use Using some Slavs as a slave labour force for the Axis war effort and to annihilate Killing the rest according to Generalplan Ost , and to acquire Getting the oil reserves of the Caucasus and the agricultural resources of Soviet territories .

Commentators attributed Causation these price increases Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale to many factors , including Middle East tension Hostile_encounter , soaring Motion demand Supply from China , the falling Motion_directional value of the U.S. dollar , reports Reporting showing Statement a decline Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale in petroleum reserves , worries over peak oil , and financial speculation .

The French part of the offensive was intended to be strategically decisive by breaking Bodily_harm through the German defences on the Aisne front within with casualties expected to be around A preliminary attack was to be made by the French Third Army at St Quentin and the British First , Third and Fifth armies at Arras , to capture Conquering high ground and divert German reserves from the French fronts on the Aisne and in Champagne .

The British Third and First armies achieved Achieve the deepest advance since trench warfare began Process_start , along the Scarpe river in the Battle of Arras , which inflicted Causation many losses on the Germans , attracted reserves and captured Conquering Vimy Ridge to the north .

The major petroleum strikes that began Process_start the rapid growth in petroleum exploration and speculation occurred Presence in Southeast Texas , but soon reserves were found Know across Texas and wells were constructed Building in North Texas , East Texas , and the Permian Basin in West Texas .

although limited reserves of oil had been struck Attack during the 19th century , the strike Attack at spindletop near beaumont in 1901 gained national attention , spurring Influence exploration and development that continued through the 1920s and beyond .

Occupy Dame Street had four requests Request : the withdrawal Escaping of the EU/IMF from Ireland , an end Process_end to public ownership of private debt , the return Arriving to public ownership of Ireland 's privatised oil and gas reserves , and the implementation of what the movement describes Statement as `` real participatory democracy '' .

Mosaddegh had sought to audit Scrutiny the documents of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company ( AIOC ) , a British corporation ( now part of BP ) and to limit Limiting the company 's control over Iranian oil reserves .

Few gave Giving them a chance of regaining the Ashes and they lost Earnings_and_losses the series 4–1 to Lindsay Hassett 's Australian team , which had far greater reserves of talent .

at stockach , the french concentrated Aiming their forces Military_operation into shorter lines , creating Creating intense fighting Hostile_encounter conditions ; initially , charles 's line was more extended Expansion , but he quickly pulled Placing additional troops from his reserves to strengthen Cause_change_of_strength his front .

Including inactive reserves , more than fifty thousand soldiers from each side took part Conquering , using Using more than two hundred pieces of artillery and three warships .

To resist Defending the offensive , the Germans had committed Commitment their most powerful armoured reserves , which deprived Destroying them of the fighting power for a counter-offensive and forfeited Earnings_and_losses the initiative to the Allies .

The offensive began Process_start in great secrecy on 6 March 1945 with an attack Killing near Lake Balaton , the area included Cause_to_be_included some of the last oil reserves still available to the Axis .

The bomber formations were left exposed Reveal_secret to unrelenting attacks Attack by German fighters and the improper preparations for the creation of reserves in the summer of 1943 meant that such costly operations could not be sustained .

The Germans had built Building up enormous reserves of ball bearings and were receiving Receiving supplies from all over Europe , particularly Italy , Sweden and Switzerland .

By 1945 , the Germans had assembled Come_together more reserves than ever .

The remaining bridges were defended Defending or impassable and with German reserves positioned to oppose their crossing , I Corps ended Process_end the operation .

This broke Destroying into the heart of the German defenses Defending in the Liri valley against strong opposition and drew Motion in German theater reserves , reducing Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale pressure on the Anzio beachhead .

Following a lull in the fighting on October 7 , Israeli armor reserves arrived at Arriving the front and launched Military_operation a counterattack opposite the city of Ismailia .

The reserves of the 7th and 8th brigades began Process_start deploying at 08:30 ( along with the Royal Marines ) , while the 9th Brigade began Process_start its deployment at 11:40 .

However , the 24th Infantry performed Hold very poorly at the battles Hostile_encounter of Blue Mountain and Haman , forcing Causation the 25th Division to muster reserves to counter the KPA gains against the 24th .

Operation Bagration diverted Removing German mobile reserves to the central sectors , removing Removing them from the Lublin-Brest and Lvov–Sandomierz areas , enabling Preventing_or_letting the Soviets to undertake the Lvov–Sandomierz Offensive and Lublin–Brest Offensive .

The Partisan group had about 3,000 soldiers , but recruited Becoming_a_member reserves from the 60,000 civilians in the free territory .

Aviation fuel stock reserves had since dropped Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale by 70 % in April 1944 , to 370,000 tons in June 1944 , and to 175,000 tons in November .

The war was the result of a decades-long Japanese imperialist policy to expand Expansion its influence politically and militarily in order to secure access to raw material reserves , food , and labor .