Why did the Arab nations of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) impose an oil embargo on the United States and its allies in the 1970s?
A) They were frustrated that Western nations were turning to nuclear energy instead of maintaining their reliance on Middle Eastern oil.
B) They were attempting to gain support from the USSR, which the Middle East judged to be in a position of power in the early 1970s.
C) They were angry that the United States had offered support to Israel in its conflicts with Egypt, Syria, and Jordan during the 1960s and 1970s.
D) They wanted to punish the United States for refusing to trade fairly with non-Western nations.
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