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Yom Kippur War (1973)

On the Cold War map as “The October War”

6–25 Oct 1973 — Egypt storms across the Suez Canal; Israel recovers and crosses the canal in turn. Both superpowers airlift arms to their allies and go on nuclear alert. OPEC then uses oil as a weapon, and its price quadruples.

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Cold War in the Third World (chapter 8 of Cold War)
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The Cold War, 1945–1991
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