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Yom Kippur War (1973)
On the Cold War map as “The October War”
6–25 Oct 1973 — Egypt storms the Suez Canal; Israel recovers and crosses it; both superpowers airlift arms and go on nuclear alert. Then OPEC turns oil into a weapon and quadruples the price.
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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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