Suez Crisis

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Egypt: Suez Canal

Suez Crisis: British occupation of Port Said

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Also Known As	October War
Date	July 26, 1956 - March 1957
Participants	Egypt • France • Israel • United Kingdom

Did You Know?

Gamal Abdel Nassers nationalization of the Suez Canal was supported by weapons and money from the Soviet Union.
Egypt and Israel had a history of animosity that helped fuel this conflict.
The Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev declared his intention to fire nuclear weapons at western Europe if the French, British, and Israeli troops were not removed from the Suez Canal.

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Ariel Sharon

Ariel Sharon

prime minister of Israel

Gamal Abdel Nasser

Gamal Abdel Nasser

president of Egypt

David Ben-Gurion

David Ben-Gurion

prime minister of Israel

Moshe Dayan.

Moshe Dayan

Israeli statesman

Dag Hammarskjöld

Dag Hammarskjöld

Swedish statesman and secretary-general of the United Nations

Ralph Bunche, 1951.

Ralph Bunche

American diplomat

Eden, photograph by Yousuf Karsh

Anthony Eden

prime minister of United Kingdom

Guy Mollet, 1961.

Guy Mollet

premier of France

Selwyn Lloyd.

Selwyn Lloyd

British statesman

André Beaufre

French general

Pearson, Lester B.

Lester B. Pearson

prime minister of Canada

David Elazar

Israeli military commander

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