The Suez Crisis: Anarchy in the Middle East (TRIH ep 717, part 1)
1956 · Resource
Why did the Suez Crisis break out in 1956? Who were Anthony Eden, the British Prime Minister at the heart of the scandal, and Gamal Abdel Nasser, the Egyptian President? And, would the crisis be the death knell to the British Empire?
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1956
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Korean War (1950)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)