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Middle East
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- 1Why was the Middle East so important to Britain?- It provided 60% of its oil
- airbases allowed RAF to be in striking distance of USSR - 2Suez Crisis- 1956
- Canal nationalised by Nasser
- France, Britain, and Israel conspired to topple him to regain access
- attack began 5 November 1956
- world markets reacted by selling off £ in huge quantities
- UK turned to US for a loan to fend off financial collapse
- US refused to help unless UK left Egypt (due to Cold War policy against Russia)
- Middle East was divided between US and USSR instead
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- Degree Contemporary (Decolonisation) Flashcards on Middle East, created by Fallstar on 20/05/2015.
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