Suez Canal Crisis Of 1956 Analysis

”Everything which was stolen from us by that imperialist company, that state within a state, when we were dying of hunger, we are going to take back…” This excerpt from President Gamal Abdel Nasser’s speech on July 26th, 1956 encaptures the feeling of millions of Egyptians at that moment in time. Prior to this day, the British Empire had controlled all aspects of Egyptian life, with their military presence upsetting the locals and causing conflict both domestically and globally. The day that Al Nasser gave the that speech is the day he nationalized the Suez Canal, one of Egypt’s most important resources, which ultimately doomed the British Empire. This sent Britain, France, Egypt, and the US into military conflict for weeks, provoking the start of a crisis. The Suez Canal Crisis of 1956 ended Britain’s colonialist Empire because of the tension between Egyptian citizens and British authorities, the political uprising of Al Nasser, and the intervention of the United States.
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British military presence in Egypt increased dramatically due to the fact that civilians had begun to take note of the popular anti-imperialist movement in Africa in the late 1940s. According to New World Encyclopedia, after noticing the success of India’s independence movement, Anthony Eden, Britain’s new prime minister, approved Operation Eagle, a large-scale crackdown on Egyptian police that led to the Cairo fire burning. Multiple Egyptian citizens ransacked, burned, and destroyed over 750 building, homes, and other establishments in 1952. The general morale of the Egyptian citizens is described in the article The Causes for the Suez Canal War of 1956: “It is generally