In late-July 1956, three months before the Suez Crisis, British Prime Minister Anthony Eden wrote a letter to U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower. At this stage it had become clear that Egyptian ...

The IMF's lending to the four countries directly involved in the 1956 Suez crisis, and particularly to the United Kingdom ... Nations resolution for a cease-fire. On December 3, the British government ...

In 1956, the first large international peacekeeping force was dispatched to the Suez Canal area to keep the peace while the British and French ... the Suez Canal Crisis. Pictured here, Pearson ...

At the same time the UK was losing its global influence as Egypt reclaimed the Suez Canal from British control. Prime Minister Eden tried to take it back but the USA refused to back the military ...

Israeli troops invaded Egypt and came within ten miles of the Suez Canal. This was the pretext for the British and French to intervene. It prompted an international crisis. America condemned the ...