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Suez Crisis

1956 CE

When Egypt nationalised the Suez Canal, Britain, France, and Israel invaded. U.S. and Soviet pressure forced a humiliating withdrawal, marking the end of British and French imperial pretensions and…

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1956 British–French–Israeli invasion of Egypt

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Suez Crisis

1956 CE

When Egypt nationalised the Suez Canal, Britain, France, and Israel invaded. U.S. and Soviet pressure forced a humiliating withdrawal, marking the end of British and French imperial pretensions and establishing the U.S. and USSR as the sole superpowers.

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