The 1956 Suez Crisis

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At the time of the Suez Crisis, United States had the power to intervene in the conflict yet chose not do so. Indeed, the United States had no military intention to force Gamal Abdel Nasser to denationalize the canal. However, the French, British and Israeli military colluded against Egypt to retrieve the canal and invaded Egyptian territory. The United states chose not to interfere to avoid future conflicts, taking into consideration the possibility of an imperil outcome. The possibility of consolidating with the western alliance will presumably intimidate future aggressors, inflame the region and instigate war with the Soviet Union.

Politically, the intervention in Suez was a disaster. The Suez crisis is often portrayed as Britain's last fling of the imperial dice. After Britain's failed attempt to collude with France and Israel to reverse Nasser’s nationalization of Suez Crisis has been generally considered britain’s greatest disasters in the history of British foreign policy after the Second World War. Britain acknowledged its standing with the US weakened and its influence on ‘east of Suez’ diminished. The Suez Crisis brought limits to Britain’s political actions, when, the U.S put economic pressure on Britain and France, the British and French troops withdrew from Egypt after only a few days. Which shows that Britain can no longer conduct a military intervention without American backing. a lesson which the British Government took very seriously after 1956.In January 1957, Sir Anthony Eden, the British prime minister resigned. his political credibility severely damaged. Guy Mollet, the French prime minister, survived longer despite fierce criticism, but his government collapsed in June 1957 over the taxation he imposed to pay for the Algerian

Even Soviet Union perceived the cold war with the west ideological terms. The Cold War was not about territory or economic wealth, it was about gaining the title “superpower” and the support of people and nations of the world. It was “a battle for the minds of men and women everywhere.” The Soviet Union and the United States played significant roles in the Suez Crisis conflict as the conflict was a major part of the Cold War. Soviet Union was an anti-semitic nation and condemned the ideologies of the Israeli nation. Although, from late 1944 until 1948, Joseph Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union communist party, adopted a pro-Zionist foreign policy, supposedly holding a strong aspiration that the newly established country would be socialist and would decline the British