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