Cold War · TURNING POINT ·
Suez Crisis (1956)
On the Cold War map as “Suez”
Nov 1956 — Britain, France and Israel seize the canal Nasser nationalized — and America, furious, forces them out with a run on sterling. The old empires learn who leads the West now.
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- Hungary 1956 and the Berlin Wall (chapter 5 of Cold War)
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- The Cold War, 1945–1991
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- Decolonization of Africa
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