On February 14, 1945, President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) met King Abduaziz Al Saudi Arabia aboard the USS Quincy in Egypt's Great Bitter Lake
The meeting took place immediately after the Yalta Conference, while FDR was returning from a conference with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin.
In modern times, Yalta, along with the rest of Crimea, is internationally recognised as part of Ukraine and is considered part of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
The 1930s in Arabia marked the birth of the modern Saudi state and the dawn of its oil age.
King Abdulaziz Al Saud unified the kingdom in 1932, bringing stability to the Hejaz [the mountainous region in western Saudi Arabia stretching along the Red Sea coast from Jordan to Asir, encompassing major cities like Jeddah, Mecca, and Medina] and the Najd region [the central area with Riyadh, the capital.]
In the early 1930s, the economy of the newly formed Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was extremely poor. It relied heavily on revenues from foreign pilgrims visiting the holy cities of Mecca and Medina.
