Dbq Anwar Al-Sadat

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Anwar al-Sadat was Egypt's president from 1970 until he was shot in 1981. He came from a poor family; therefore he was schooled locally in Cairo, then he attended the military and graduated in 1938. When World War II came to North Africa in 1940 he supported the Germans, he really wanted the invasion by the forces would lead to the end of British rule, he never liked the British rule because he didn’t accept the fact that Egypt was ruled by a monarchy, also that the king and the queen were not Egyptians, The British authorities had Sadat arrested, and he remained imprisonment until he was finally released in 1948. Anwar El Sadat had great hope for Egypt, he once said “On Egyptian soil there is no will but that of the

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