HIST 2111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Yom Kippur War, Homeland For The Jewish People, Six-Day War
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Oil: opec was created as a cartel to control prices of oil. All the major oil producing nations are within this organization to ensure they can cap prices and production to make the most profit. Israel: created in 1945, the balfour declaration was gb giving land for a jewish homeland in. This declaration was made post wwi and this wasn"t a problem since the jews did not live there. Post wwii many jews went there causing a problem between jews and arabs. 1948: after the creation of israel, syria, lebanon, egypt, transjordan, and iraq attacked the jewish. Israel, gb, and france sought to regain control over the suez canal. 1967: the 6 day war egypt was placing their forces along the sinai peninsula. 1973: yom kippur war egypt (sadat) and syria launched a surprise attack on israel but had lost anyway. Opec decided not to sell oil to israel or usa. Camp david accords: meeting in camp david, maryland.
