1973: Egypt and Syria Attack Isreal; Egypt requests Soviet aid-
In 1971, the Egyptian President Anwar Sadat said that war became inevitable after no progress towards peace was made. The Israelis had taken land that was not rightfully there's to own and Egypt was irate that Israel took the land and would not return it. So, in 1972, Sadat promised war if America did not force Israel to return the land that did not belong to them. After America refused to force Isreal to do anything, Egypt turned to the Soviet Union to put pressure on America but after the Soviets refused as well, Sadat kicked 20,000 Soviets out of Egypt. The war at hand was known as the Yom Kippur War
On October 6th, 1973, the day of Yom Kippur, Egypt, Syria attacked Israel supported by Jordan, Palestinian, Algeria, Morocco, Cairo and most importantly the Soviet Union. Israel was shelled, outnumbered and blasted for the first few days. U.S.A. tried to negotiate with mainly the Soviet Union to immediately stop all firing on Israel but after the Soviet Union and all other nations showed no interest in that proposition America started its own attack to aid Israel. The war ultimately ended after the UN forced all nations to ceasefire.
Once again, the Soviet Union and America did not fight directly in this instance but still had a head-to-head collision in the battle for power throughout the world. America and the Soviet Union aided opposing countries in spite of one another. The two countries were always battling for power through other nations, and this is another perfect example of this power struggle between the two nations.
1973: Egypt and Syria Attack Isreal; Egypt requests Soviet aid-
In 1971, the Egyptian President Anwar Sadat said that war became inevitable after no progress towards peace was made. The Israelis had taken land that was not rightfully there's to own and Egypt was irate that Israel took the land and would not return it. So, in 1972, Sadat promised war if America did not force Israel to return the land that did not belong to them. After America refused to force Isreal to do anything, Egypt turned to the Soviet Union to put pressure on America but after the Soviets refused as well, Sadat kicked 20,000 Soviets out of Egypt. The war at hand was known as the Yom Kippur War
On October 6th, 1973, the day of Yom Kippur, Egypt, Syria attacked Israel supported by Jordan, Palestinian, Algeria, Morocco, Cairo and most importantly the Soviet Union. Israel was shelled, outnumbered and blasted for the first few days. U.S.A. tried to negotiate with mainly the Soviet Union to immediately stop all firing on Israel but after the Soviet Union and all other nations showed no interest in that proposition America started its own attack to aid Israel. The war ultimately ended after the UN forced all nations to ceasefire.
Once again, the Soviet Union and America did not fight directly in this instance but still had a head-to-head collision in the battle for power throughout the world. America and the Soviet Union aided opposing countries in spite of one another. The two countries were always battling for power through other nations, and this is another perfect example of this power struggle between the two nations.
Bard, Mitchell. "The Yom Kippur War." Jewish Virtual Library - Homepage. Web. 05 Apr. 2011. <http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/73_War.html>.