20th Century Wars

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  1. 2. Describes Israel’s surprise air assault on June 5, 1967
  2. 3. 1967 conflict in which Israel launched a preemptive strike against Egypt, Syria, and Jordan
  3. 5. Fortified high ground captured by Israel from Syria in June 1967
  4. 8. Waterway closed by Egypt in 1967, creating a blockade of Israeli shipping
  5. 9. Territory captured by Israel in 1967 and later returned to Egypt
  6. 10. U.S. president who brokered the Camp David negotiations
  7. 13. The act of cutting off access, especially by sea, to pressure another country
  8. 16. The United States and Soviet Union were drawn into indirect confrontation as this type of global power
  9. 17. The principle demonstrated when Israel returned Sinai in exchange for peace
  10. 18. Islamic holy month during which the 1973 war also occurred
  11. 19. Territory taken from Jordan by Israel during the Six Day War
  12. 20. UN measure calling for an immediate cease-fire in October 1973
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  1. 1. 1978 agreements between Egypt and Israel that led to a peace treaty
  2. 4. Israeli prime minister who signed the Camp David Accords
  3. 6. Organization that rejected the Camp David Accords but later signed the Oslo Accords
  4. 7. Egyptian president who mobilized forces in the Sinai in May 1967
  5. 11. 1973 conflict launched by Egypt and Syria on a Jewish holy day
  6. 12. Egyptian president who signed the Camp David Accords
  7. 14. Date Egypt and Syria attacked Israel in 1973
  8. 15. 1993 agreements between Israel and the PLO building on earlier peace frameworks