The Soviet Union is furious, believing it…
1973 CE
On October 24, the Soviet ambassador hands Kissinger a note from Brezhnev threatening that if the United States is not prepared to join in sending forces to impose the cease-fire, the Soviet Union will act alone.
The United States takes the threat very seriously and respond by ordering a grade-three nuclear alert, the first of its kind since President John F. Kennedy's order during the Cuban missile crisis of 1962.
The threat comes to naught, however, because a UN emergency force arrives in the battle zone to police the cease-fire.
Groups
United States of America (US, USA) (Washington DC)
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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), or Soviet Union
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Saudi Arabia, Kingdom of
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United Nations, The (U.N.)
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Syria, or Syrian Arab Republic
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Gaza Strip
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West Bank
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Israel
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Palestinians
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OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries)
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Egypt, Arab Republic of
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