HIST-1107EL Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Oslo Accords, Bourgeoisie, New Historians
5 Dec 2020
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Middle east: local tension - global entanglements: 1956: suez crisis: invasion of egypt in late by israel, followed by britain and france. Wanted to regain western control of the suez canal and to remove egyptian president. After the fighting had started, the united states, the. Soviet union, and the united nations forced the three invaders to withdraw. The episode humiliated great britain and france and strengthened nasser: six day war - 1967: in reaction to the mobilization of egyptian forces along the israeli border in the. Sinai peninsula, israel launched a series of preemptive airstrikes against egyptian airfields catching them by surprise: israelis launched a ground offensive into the gaza strip and northern parts of sinai. : invasion of 5 arab nations, israel won with us/ussr and gained ground: zionist highly organized smooth transition into government/army, arabs didn"t work together.
