colonial policy-egypt and the suez crisis

Question 1

what contries were involved in the suez crisis

Answer 1

usa
ussr
br
france
egypt
israel

Question 2

what did the us want to protect in egypt and how did they aim to do this

Answer 2

capitalism and oil
giving £70 mill in aid to build the aswan dam

Question 3

what did the ussr want to do in egypt

Answer 3

promote communism
assist the post colonial state

Question 4

what did the ussr pledge with egypt in 1955

Answer 4

to supply military arms in return for cotton and rice

Question 5

what did france want to do in egypt

Answer 5

protect north african empire
re-establish dominance in international relations

Question 6

what did britan want to do in egypt

Answer 6

maintain control over canal
overthrow nasser
maintain baghdadpact

Question 7

why did israel get involved in egypt

Answer 7

protect from future holocausts
punish egypt for giving palestinian guerrillas a base

Question 8

when was the anglo-egyptian treaty

Answer 8

1936

Question 9

what were the terms of the anglo egyptian treaty

Answer 9

br allowed to keep 10,000 in canal zone and maintains control in aden and influence in cyprus and iraq

Question 10

what does king farouk of egypt do in 1951

Answer 10

renounces the anglo egyptian treaty as he wants br to leave

Question 11

when does nasser launch his sucsessfull coup

Answer 11

january 1952

Question 12

who is eden

Answer 12

foreign secretary of britain

Question 13

what does eden do after the coup and why

Answer 13

opens negotiations to get nasser on br side

Question 14

what is agreed with nasser in 1953

Answer 14

br agrees to stage a program of sudanese independence

Question 15

what does br agree with nasser in 1954

Answer 15

a phased withdrawal of br troops from canal zone over 20 months

Question 16

what does egypt promise br in 1954

Answer 16

free access to canal
maintenance of former bases in occupational condition
respect the independence of the suez company

Question 17

when is the badhdad pact formed

Answer 17

1955

Question 18

who was in the baghdad pact

Answer 18

turkey
pakistan
iraq
br
persia

Question 19

what was the purpose of the badhdad pact

Answer 19

to repel soviet threat in middle east

Question 20

what was nasser’s responce to the baghdad pact

Answer 20

refused to join and pressured jordan not to join

Question 21

what does nasser do in may 1956

Answer 21

recognise communist china going against containment

Question 22

what does the ussr offer egypt in june 1956

Answer 22

1,120,000,000 at 2% intrest rate for the dam

Question 23

what happened in egypt july 1956

Answer 23

us withdraws financial aid
nasser nationalised canal causing crisis

Question 24

how did br and france want their plan to look

Answer 24

isreal attacks egypt
be and france step in
separate warring countries
br and france return the canal to their control

Question 25

what was the real intentions of be and france for the attack

Answer 25

be and france would capture the canal
isreal would cross the sinai peninsula in a land grab

Question 26

what actually happend in the crisis

Answer 26

br and france invade w paratroopers and airstrikes + isreal thrusts forward

Question 27

what was the us responce to the crisis

Answer 27

put financial pressure on br to quit and threaten isreal with economic sanctions

Question 28

what did bulganin (foreign secretary of ussr) do in response to the crisis

Answer 28

threatened to use icbm on br and isreal

Question 29

what did saudi arabia do as a result of the crisis

Answer 29

cut back br oil supply

Question 30

after the crisis what did br france and isreal do

Answer 30

withdraw from canal zone
isreal returned gaza strip to egyptian control

Question 31

what did the un do in the crisis

Answer 31

put a peace keeping force to cover sinai peninsula

Question 32

what was the result of the crisis for egypt

Answer 32

diplomatic win

Question 33

how is the crisis seen for br

Answer 33

last fling of the empire as it was a humiliating defeat