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Suez Crisis
1956
Middle East
Status: ended
Casualties: ~4,000
After Nasser nationalised the canal, Britain, France, and Israel attacked Egypt. US and Soviet pressure forced humiliating withdrawal. The end of British and French great-power status; the arrival of the US and USSR as the only powers that mattered.
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Belligerents
- Britain, France, Israel
- Egypt (Nasser)
Casualties
~4,000
From World at War, an interactive atlas by Jairus Pereira.
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