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Suez Crisis (1956)
On the Decolonization of Africa map as “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.
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- Suez Crisis and North Africa (chapter 2 of Decolonization of Africa)
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- The Decolonization of Africa, 1945–1994
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- Cold War
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