The Suez Crisis: Britain's Shattered Empire (TRIH ep 718, part 2)
1956 · Resource
What role did France, Russia, America and Israel play in the Suez Crisis of 1956? Did the Egyptian leader, President Gamal Abdel Nasser, respond to the foreign invasion with military force? And, how did the debacle unfold?
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)