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The Suez Crisis
Oct–Nov 1956 — Britain, France and Israel invade to seize the canal Nasser has nationalized. Eisenhower, blindsided, forces them out with a run on the pound. The old empires learn who now leads the West.
This is one scene of Chapter 2 — The First Doors in The Decolonization of Africa, 1945–1994.
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