The 1956 Suez canal Crisis and the end of British Empire

The Suez Canal is considered to be the shortest link between the east and the west due to its unique geographic location.

It is an important international navigation canal linking between the Mediterranean sea at Port said and the red sea at Suez.

In 1956, the French and British invaded Egypt, leading to a crisis that came to be known as the tripartite aggression or the Suez Canal crisis.

[jamesbedukodjograham]

This video is the most comprehensive Video that explains the Suez Crisis.
I now understand the Suez Crisis better than ever before you know,

[soulrebel]

One correction. British Intelligence is not called M16 it’s correctly called Mi 6 !!

[lorrainechingwarara]

How does this video have this little views, in my opinion its one of your best videos

[bisimedia]

Beautifully written and well documented. I'm learning from you, sir.

[somewhere]

I like this channel`s work and wish they could do more. In this particular video, I have to point out that the picture of a German King Tiger tank at 4:58 gave me a chuckle.

[SPIDERman]

This was a well done script...though i need to add that the main reason Americans were upset with the anglo french adventure in the suez canal was because..one condition they had not fulfilled after the end of ww2 in order to get help to rebuilt under the marshall plan was to give up their colonies.America ALWAYS feared a resurgent BRITAIN or France DUE TO THEIR HUGE COLONIES and territories so ..their number one plan for next 20 yrs after ww11 was to ensure no other power had any ability to raise resources and power to threaten america...and therefore pushed the french and british to grant independence to vast colonies..meanwhile the CIA was busy ensuring none of the new free countries became communist....the genesis of american fear of any future recolonization is manifest in their 2nd amendment of their constitution to allow the right to bare arms for all americans and the monroe doctrine passed by congress during the late 18thcentury and 1900s.

[jamesbedukodjograham]

Today I now know that Gamel Abdel Nasser was a great leader of the Egyptian Nation.
May Allah grant his soul good rest,

[milesblue]

The US had an interest in undermining British and French imperial aims.

[mumar]

I really salute Nasser that man is the father of African Nationalism.
Thanks for sharing such history that esp Africans need to know

[Frost_Trow]

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[OpheliaMonarch]

This was excellent - thank you so much. 🙏

[majeedali]

what are the names of the songs used in this video if i may ask?

[yurigansmith]

Very well made take on the Suez crisis! 👍

[mubarakbayambeadamu]

Your videos are always top notch. Bravo

[jamesbedukodjograham]

Sir May you become a full Professor of history with no other condition within our world and our globe.

[aleksandarstojecki]

Great video, well done! Long live the African and Arab struggle for independence from imperialism! Greeting from Serbia.

[zombieat]

one source cites only 1.36-2.49 deaths per thousand per year and an average workforce of 18, 605-34, 258 per year bringing the total death toll of building the suez canal to only 429. another cites 120, 000 death mostly from cholera and similar epidemics. so the geometric mean would be 7, 177 deaths in the construction of the suez canal.

[oight]

Thanks, this was an amazing video! I was only going to watch a little bit atm because I'm meant to be doing other work, but I ended up watching it all lol. I'm british but I didn't really know that much about what happened, except the very basics... They certainly make sure to not teach or talk much about it here in the UK, now I understand why for how awful & embarrassing it was to the british gov!

And it's shocking how the same arguments and tone is still used to justify present wars/more recent invasions in the middle east! Even though I'm british/scottish (although my mum's family is irish so I heard a lot about anti-imperialism & palestine growing up, I had irish family that were linked to algerian independence too), I despise western imperialism & all the propaganda that is still present in our media today. So it's amazing to see that particular british politician type of arrogance, who is also totally uncompromising/pompous, actually get a good kicking from their warmogering and have to walk back home in shame 😂😂😂 Only that it is still despicable that Eden was able to get away without being tried for international war crimes for causing that much suffering to Egypt's population. I'm not joking when I say that the majority of people in the UK under 60 would not know who he was, they've tried to wipe it out from history here that much. Even the average british person under 40 is sick of it here (although the news will not show that), they act like maniacs in government and think nothing can touch them despite their cruelty to the the global south & working classes, so it is amazing to see them actually be scared by the consequences of their own actions. They still talk like this and warmonger just as much, but are even less politically powerful than they were in 1956. Seeing Khrushchev threaten that he would bomb london must have made them absolutely terrified 😂

[hakimdiwan]

Nasser was the most badass modern day Arab leader.

[jamesbedukodjograham]

I wasnt born but 1956 was a year of amazing promise for the UK and in 1957 a new nation was born Ghana the Former Gold Coast the pioneer in African Indeependence.