Suez crisis causes

Why did nasser nationalized the suez canal

This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Israel invaded on 29 October, having done so with the primary objective of re-opening the Straits of Tiran and the Gulf of Aqaba as the recent tightening of the eight-year-long Egyptian blockade further prevented Israeli passage.

The Crisis demonstrated that the United Kingdom and France could no longer pursue their independent foreign policy without consent from the United States. Israel's four-month-long occupation of the Egyptian-occupied Gaza Strip and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula enabled it to attain freedom of navigation through the Straits of Tiran, but the Suez Canal was closed from October to March Eisenhower had issued a strong warning to the British if they were to invade Egypt; he threatened serious damage to the British financial system by selling the American government's bonds of pound sterling.

Before their defeat, Egyptian troops blocked all ship traffic by sinking 40 ships in the canal. These three achieved a number of their military objectives, although the canal was useless. The crisis strengthened Nasser's standing and led to international humiliation for the British — with historians arguing that it signified the end of its role as a world superpower — as well as the French amid the Cold War which established the U.

For his diplomatic efforts in resolving the conflict through UN initiatives, Canadian external affairs minister Lester B. Pearson received a Nobel Peace Prize. The Suez Canal was opened in , after ten years of work financed by the French and Egyptian governments. The canal instantly became strategically important, as it provided the shortest ocean link between the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean.