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Oil Embargo

Name: Oil Embargo – United States of America factsheet records
Creator: World History Database

United States of America · Warfare / Yom Kippur War. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1973Date range

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Chronological records

1973

Richard Milhous NixonOctober 1973

Washington · Warfare / Yom Kippur War

Faces the Arab oil embargo imposed after American support for Israel.

Names involved

Richard Milhous Nixon

Provenance

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