Key issues
- Explain the causes, events and results of the 1973 (Yom Kippur) war
Key themes, concepts and processes:
- The key consequences of the 1967 war
- Anwar Sadat’s aims in 1973
- Arab attack on Israel on Yom Kippur (1973)
- Reasons for early Arab success and eventual Israeli recovery
- Effects of the war and the emergence of a peace process
Read:
- Hodder, pp. 30-33
- Edexcel Textbook
- O’Brien Browne, ‘The Arab-Israeli War of 1973: Honor, Oil and Blood’, in Military History Quarterly, December, 2015.
- Dan Snow documentary on Yom Kippur on ClickView
- Yom Kippur, 1973Tasks
- Watch BBC Bitesize video and explain the significance of Anwar Sadat during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Was he a higher achiever than Nasser?
- Individual task. Using two of the following methods summarise the key features of the 1973 war (Yom Kippur):
- Mind map
- Bullet points
- Cartoon strip
- Story board
- Paired task: Compare and contrast the wars of 1967 and 1973 using Ven diagrams for
- Causes
- Events
- Results
- Reasons for outcome