“On October 17, 1973, Arab oil producers declared an embargo that drastically limited the shipment of oil to the United States” (OPEC 1). Arab countries refused to sell oil to the United States because of the Yom Kippur War, a war between Egypt and Israel. In this war, United states was backing up Israel by supporting them and giving them weapons, which angered Arab leaders. Arabs started limiting the shipment of oil to the United States. The embargo, however, brought crisis to the US with unequal proportions. US citizens were very panicky because of the shortage of gas and oil. Ultimately, the US economy slowed down, leaving its’ citizens to to be dependent on domestic resources. Shipment of oil in the country dropped by 1 million barrels, …show more content…
During the time of the Cold War, the Red Scare was increasing in the US. American citizens were very xenophobic and didn’t like Soviets. Meanwhile, the President of the US, Richard Nixon, was in investigation of Alger Hiss, a government official who was accused of being a soviet spy. As a member of HUAC in 1948-1950, Nixon took a leading role in the investigation of Alger Hiss, spy for a Soviet Union (Britannica 2). In addition, US was involved in the Yom Kippur War, a war between Egypt and Israel. Americans were on Israeli side, providing them with weapons and troops, which angered Arabs. The Arab leaders stopped the shipment of oil to the US, which led to US embargo of 1973. Furthermore, US was in a war with Vietnam, which is known as Vietnam War. The author stated, “Democrat Hubert H. Humphrey called for an end to the bombing of Northern Vietnam” (Britannica 4). US tried to find a peaceful way to end and solve the conflict with Vietnam without any casualties. After all, these wars led to a crisis in America, including shortage of gas and oil. As can be seen, during the this time period of OPEC embargo of 1973, US was involved in few conflicts with other nations, which resulted in the crisis of oil and gas in the
Energy Crisis (1970’s) states that the crisis officially began when the “Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC) reduced their petroleum production and proclaimed an embargo on oil shipments to the United States and the Netherlands, the main supporters of Israel.” They did
The americans only started intervening with the middle east to stop communism, the U.S wanted to influence the middle eastern countries to be like the U.S later on the U.S wanted to get the oil the tons and tons of oil the middle east would be lots of help to the U.S .The U.S helped middle eastern countries grow more stronger by helping them which allowed the U.S to be allies with the Middle Eastern countries and receive cheaper oil .Now america's views and goals on the middle east have changed a lot because of the terrorist attacks that occur the U.S are focused on ending terrorism, the middle east has been changed from an area that helps the U.S with the oil and now their are tons of problems created by terrorism in the middle east. One
Since the US decided to support the Israeli military and make a post-war peace negotiation with Egypt and Israel, known as the Camp David Accords, the Arab members of OPEC imposed an embargo against the United States cutting off their oil supply. In Document C it says, “Because of that war, most of the Middle Eastern oil producers have reduced overall production and cut off their shipments of oil to the United States.” Showing that not everyone agreed with America when it came to supporting Israeli military and that the Middle East has more control over American than we would like. Another reason the OPEC oil embargo happened is because of the Camp David Accords. In Document D it depicts a newspaper with the headline, “Egypt and Israel Sign Formal Treaty, Ending a State of War After 30 Years,” which shows that America wanted to gain allies in the Middle East and not everyone in the Middle East was happy about
Benjamin Sovacool explains in his article that over the period of twelve years, the United States shale gas production increased 24.5 times the amount it produced in 1998. From 0.2 trillion cubic feet to an enormous 4.9 trillion cubic feet. Natural gas is also a huge financial benefit to North America. Before this drastic increase of fracking and natural gas production, the United States imported a clear majority of its oil and energy sources from the Middle East. This caused the middle east to obtain a control over the United States economic situation. For example, the 1979 oil embargo caused by OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries). According to Kimberly Amadeo, their decision to increase oil prices by a meager ten percent, caused oil rationing in the United States and worsened the already declining economy at this time. Since the increase in fracking and natural gas production, the U.S. has become decreasingly reliant on imported energy sources. Richard Janson denotes, that the impact of this influx of cheap gas has had many positive impacts on not only the economics of the energy industry, but foreign policy and the United States domestic policy. With the downfall in the need for imports for energy and the rise of hydraulic
People all over the U.S were wondering why they were doing this and one of the causes was when the U.S made a deal with Israel to gather oil from Asia and what Israel wanted was to attack but behind that scheme it turned out that the U.S was supporting Israel during the
The Vietnam War lasted for two decades and started in 1945. Due to the Vietnam War, it caused the United States to lose a large amount of things by the end of the war in 1975. One thing the United States lost during the Vietnam War was their people (troops and civilians). A total of 15,058 United States troops were killed and as many as 109,527 were wounded. They also lost a lot of their money, by spending billions and billions of dollars every year paying for war they began putting their economy in dept. Another thing the United States lost in Vietnam was all of the support that their American citizens were giving them. There was lack of support for the United States because of their involvement in the Vietnam war. These American supporters
Cold War America faced many challenges on the home front. Oil embargoes placed on America during the 1970’s had profound impacts limiting civilians to three gallons of gas a week, forcing people to carpool, and creating a black market of oil. Conflicts in the Middle East increased economic pressure as the American government supported Israel and Iraq in the Arab-Israeli War of 1973 and the Iran-Iraq War in 1980-1988. Stagflation, defined as a combination of high inflation and unemployment leading to slow economic growth, became a significant issue in the American economy. A supply shock in oil caused by the aforementioned embargoes, led to a steep incline in oil prices (see Appendix A).
The United States involvement in the Vietnam War developed into one of the most brutal, yet necessary wars of The Cold War. Although the war was viewed poorly by most, it helped a weak, crumbling South Vietnam stand up to a strong powerful North Vietnam that was forcing communism on them. President Johnson even stated that “Our objective is the independence of South Vietnam and its freedom from attack.” The United States wanted to stop an oppressive government and to make sure the world is a safer, freer place for all people. The Vietnam War was worth fighting for as it sent a message to the world that communism is not the right form of government and that the United States was here to support small nations in dire circumstances. The war
The Vietnam War is thought of as one of the most significant events in United States history. It was fought over the course of two decades and three United States presidencies. American involvement in the Vietnam War is one of the most highly debated topics discussed today. The United States began their involvement by supporting the French with one billion dollars per year to assist in containing the chaos in Vietnam. Once the French failed, the United States continued to supply money, firearms, and military advisors to aid the South Vietnamese. Americans remembered their promise to support any country fighting against the spread of communism. That promise was hard to keep when government lies were exposed, the number of American graves grew, and the matter of draft issues became too overwhelming to ignore.
The Vietnam War was a grousing, costly battle that drained our nation morally and psychologically. The war lives infamously with the unpopularity received by America and its people. Many believed that we had no business joining arms with South Vietnam to try and defeat a communist regime of North Vietnam and the Viet Cong. With the war begining in 1954 due to the rise of the North Vietnamese and their leader Ho Chi Minh, an advocate for communism, which put a target on North Vietnam due to America’s pursuit to end communism around the world. By 1969 and the Wars 15th year of existence, more than half a million American soldiers had been involved. Many returning veterans and a large portion of the American public felt bitter about our involvement
The U.S. involvement in Vietnam was a failure and should not have been a war the US fought. The United States main objective was to stop communism within Vietnam, considering that Vietnam is still a communist country shows that the involvement did not help to stop communism in Vietnam. The Vietnam War was not only a disaster in Vietnam, the United States was getting a lot of backlash from its citizens. The US was split with pro-war and anti-war opinions that created a lot of protest amongst the citizens. The covering up and lying about the war by president Johnson also caused a lot of distrust between the US citizens and the US government grew. The United States involvement in Vietnam did not only not fail in its main objective, it came at a huge cost in casualties to American and Vietnamese citizens.
During 1973-1974, with the dwindling of oil resources Americans were faced with the possibility of running out of oil. The Oil Embargo implemented by Arab members of The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries denied exporting oil to the states that supported Israel during the Arab-Israeli War. My questions about this event are how did this oil embargo change The United States and what did they do to adjust to all these changes? First the US had to figure out a new place they could get their oil from, they had to create new energy conservation movements and find new ways to create energy, and then finally they had to change how they looked at international business.
Lyndon B. Johnson inherited the war from Kennedy in 1963 and it was his responsibility to lead America through the Vietnam war and stop communism, he planned was to escalate the war. The Gulf of Tonkin resolution was what really involved the US in the war and made them a big part of it. The alleged attacks of North Vietnam on the USS Maddox angered America and it was a way for Johnson to organise attacks on North Vietnam. He now had an excuse and his main view on the war was to escalate it. Although he had a lot of support from US citizens, there were some people protesting against his approach towards the war later on.
The 1973-1974 Oil Crisis was a result of a myriad of issues. The Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC) took concerted action in continuously reducing their oil production “until their economic and political objectives were achieved.” The production was reduced so much that in some areas the oil prices dramatically rose “six-fold.” The OAPEC countries production cuts disrupted the industrial countries’ necessary oil supplies and there was nothing that could be done to alleviate the price spike, thanks in large part to the industrial countries insufficient spare oil capacity (Scott 28). Moreover, the Yom Kippur War, the fourth of the Arab-Israeli wars, was waged, in which Egypt and Syria led a coalition of Arab states against Israel from October 6. Within a week, Iraq had “nationalized American interests in Basrah Petroleum’s southern Iraqi production” and three eastern Mediterranean pipeline terminals had been shut down. Furthermore, on October 27, ten Arab states had announced “a progressive step-by-step production cutback and embargoes” against the United States, the Netherlands, and Denmark due to their alleged support for Israel (Lantzke 219). Essentially, the embargoes were politically employed by the Arab producers’ as a weapon of coercion, in that the embargoes were designed to influence policy changes in the countries that were friendly to Israel.
Oil embargo in 1973 by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Companies (OPEC) focuses attention on the energy crisis and results in increased demand for coal as a preferred fossil fuel alternative to oil in the United States, Europe, and much of the rest of the world. At that