After a rollercoaster of negotiations that were threatened by failure at every turn, Egyptian President Sadat, Israeli Prime Minister Begin, and US President Jimmy Carter succeed in brokering a framework for the first Israeli-Arab peace agreement in 1978.

As the Palestinian Liberation Organization takes root in Lebanon, it sparks a civil war in that small and diverse nation, leading to the first Israeli-Lebanese War.

A demonic confluence of Soviet, neo-Nazi and Islamist ideologies work together to produce the most sensational terrorist attacks of the early 1970's.