HIST 240 Lecture 6: lecture 2nd october
16 Oct 2017
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Socialism in the ussr are not the same: identified as a reformer introduced certain important reforms to egypt (education, opening jobs to women in the legal systems, and helping the poor) East, a front against the spread of communism after ww2. Called the baghdad pact of 1954/55: formed and led by britain, included turkey, iran, Pakistan and iraq: also invited egypt to join but nasser refused because he wanted firstly to adopt a neutral foreign policy = positive neutralism (championed this with nehru and. Tito (yugoslavian)) world divided into 2 camps and. Czechoslovakia the us pulled out: nasser had no option but to nationalize the suez canal to use the revenues generated from the canal to finance the aswan dam, october 29th 1956 britain, israelis and french invaded. Egypt war stopped when ussr and us intervened against brits, french and israeli: after this victory nasser emerged as the most loved and respected arab leader they lost the war against the.
