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Suez Crisis 1956

Suez Crisis 1956. Kaitlyn Acerbo Rose Bellandi Audrey Comstock. Background Information. Built in 1869 Run by the Suez Canal Company 1875 Egypt sells its share to the British, the canal was kept as a neutral zone Anglo-Egyptian Treaty of 1936

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Suez Crisis 1956

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  1. Suez Crisis 1956 Kaitlyn Acerbo Rose Bellandi Audrey Comstock

  2. Background Information • Built in 1869 • Run by the Suez Canal Company • 1875 Egypt sells its share to the British, the canal was kept as a neutral zone • Anglo-Egyptian Treaty of 1936 • 1950’s Egypt starts to express interest in regaining control of the canal • 1954 British pull out from the canal and Nasser nationalizes it

  3. Churchill Nasser Coty Khrushchev Ben-Gurion Eisenhower Sharett

  4. Causes • Breakdown of alliances • Challenges to sovereignty • Growing tensions • Withdrawal of US financial support for the Aswan Dam

  5. Questions for the Class What would you do? Was this growing issue one of purely colonialist remnants in Africa? Could an intervention based on economic interests happen today (2007)

  6. Statement by President Eisenhower

  7. Effects • Britain loses power as a world power and loses standing with its allies. • Soviets gained standing in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. • French government changed.France pulled out of NATO’s military. • US took the place of France and the UK. Relationships between states changed. • Increased anti-British, anti-western, Arab nationalism. • Palestinians lose faith in the Arab world to help get a Palestinian.

  8. Suez was a preventative war : What is a preventative war? Preemptive war is justified by an imminent threat of attack, a clear and present danger that the country in question is about to attack you. In such a case a preemptive attack is recognized as justifiable. (Cirincione) Yes: • 1.Alliances lead to war (liberal theory basis)2. Conflict Spiral No: • Alliances and treaties lead to peace (realist) • nationalism of dam not in self-defense • Egypt backed out of treatytherefore abandoning peace-making processremoval from process doesn't correspond to preventative theory of acting in defense

  9. Suez Crisis Disproves Democratic Peace Theory What is the Democratic Peace Theory? Democracies, in particular liberal democracies, will not war with each other Yes: • Economic relations * BUT Egypt/US/UK had economic ties and a basis to cooperate (oil) and still warred and initiated conflict spiral No: • 1.DPT isn't applicable in this situation:2.DPT says Democracies won't war as often with EACH OTHER3.Nasser wasn't democratically elected; he was appointed

  10. Suez Crisis lead to EU Yes: • 1.The Suez Crisis demonstrated the need for a united voice from Europe to prevent future conflicts over economic causes • 2.The EU created a venue for a regional untied voice • 3.during the Suez Crisis the only IGO present giving instructions was the UN, who proposed resolutions calling for a ceasefire • 4. an action that European forces believed contrary to their economic motivations No: • 1. The Suez Crisis didn't lead to the EU formation • 2. The foundation for the EU stemmed much earlier: • 3. Following WWII Europe wanted to prevent another war in Europe • 4 There was the formation of the ECSC and the ECC • 5.These organizations eventually caused the creation of the EU • 6. Along with the global need to balance the power of the growing hegemon the United States

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