WORLD WAR II
DECOLONIZATION PHASE
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Yom Kippur War
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Invasion of Afghanistan
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Partition of India
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Apartheid
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Detailed explanation-1: -Israeli preparation Prime Minister Golda Meir, Minister of Defense Moshe Dayan and Chief of General Staff David Elazar met at 8:05 am on the morning of Yom Kippur, six hours before the war began.
Detailed explanation-2: -Thinking that the IDF would not be able to defend Israel on the holiest day of the Jewish year, the Arab states coordinated a surprise attack on Saturday, October 6, 1973, Yom Kippur. The war ended 18 days later, on October 24, 1973, when a ceasefire was declared.
Detailed explanation-3: -On October 6, 1973, hoping to win back territory lost to Israel during the third Arab-Israeli war, in 1967, Egyptian and Syrian forces launched a coordinated attack against Israel on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.
Detailed explanation-4: -Operation Nickel Grass was a strategic airlift operation conducted by the United States to deliver weapons and supplies to Israel during the 1973 Yom Kippur War.