Eden resigns, broken by Suez
1957 · Event
His health wrecked and his authority destroyed by the fiasco and the lie to Parliament, Anthony Eden resigns after twenty months as prime minister — the shortest peacetime premiership of the century to that point. Harold Macmillan, who had urged the invasion and then the retreat, succeeds him.
On these timelines: The Suez Crisis, UK: Prime Ministers, United Kingdom (combined), England, Master
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- Korean War (1950)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
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