In October 1973, the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC) announced that it was implementing a total oil embargo against countries that had supported Israel at any point during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, which began after Egypt and Syria launched a large-scale surprise attack in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to recover the territories that they had lost to Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War.
Key Facts
| Subject | 1973 oil crisis |
| Category | OAPEC petroleum embargo |
| Reading time | 1 min · Advanced |
| Key date | 1973 |