https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20191031-hilda-geiringer-mathematician-who-fled-the-nazis

Hilda Geiringer, 1893–1973, taken and modified from a web page of the University of St Andrews

If I were a history teacher, and mandated one video to explain the Twentieth Century, this would be the one. The Pacific War of WWII was also fought over oil, though not the thrust of this documentary.