Suez ceasefire takes effect
1956 · Event
US and Soviet pressure forces Britain and France to accept a ceasefire; their troops leave by 22 December and Israel's by March 1957, a humiliation for both powers.
On these timelines: The Suez Crisis, France, Master, North Africa, British Empire
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- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
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