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On October 29, 1956, Israeli armed forces pushed into Egypt toward the Suez Canal after Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the canal in July of that same year, initiating the Suez Crisis.
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The Six-Day War, also known as the June War, 1967 Arab–Israeli War, or Third Arab–Israeli War, was fought between June 5 and 10, 1967 by Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. Israel launched a series of airstrikes against Egyptian airfields on June 5. On June 11, a ceasefire was signed, less than a thousand Israelis had been killed compared to over 20,000 from the Arab forces.
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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.
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Egyptian and Israeli leaders met at Camp David with President Carter in 1978 to discuss a treaty in which Egypt would regain full control of the Sinai Peninsula. The treaty was signed on March 26, 1979.
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The treaty with Egypt lead to a "cold" peace, but Israel had to focus on the Palestinian refugees living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Attacks by the Palestine Liberation Organization from the Lebanon border added to the tensions. In June 1982, Israel invades Lebanon. The United States intervened, and a force of U.S. and Western European troops helped with the PLO and Syrian evacuation.
