Modern Era · Middle East · War
1973
Yom Kippur War
October 6, 1973
Egyptian and Syrian forces launched coordinated surprise attacks on Israeli positions in the Sinai and Golan Heights on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. Israel reeled, counterattacked, and won, but the illusion of invincibility was gone. An Arab oil embargo that followed quadrupled crude prices and recast the world economy.
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Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.
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