Because, during the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, Arab members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) imposed an embargo against the United States in retaliation for the U.S. decision to re-supply the Israeli military and to gain leverage in the post-war peace negotiations.
of course it does many things in history caused how we are now, such as ww1 without it there would be no ww2 or no cold war ww1 was a big turning point in history cause it set out the rest of the 20th century
