Crisis of Suez Canal

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  • Obtaining the Canal Zone by Ferdinand de Lesseps

  • Creation of the Universal Suez Canal Company, which leads the creation of the canal

  • First pick for the construction of the canal

  • Opening of the Suez Canal which forms a shortcut between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea

  • Anglo-Egyptian Treaty for the Independence of Egypt

  • Reversal of the monarchy in Egypt of Farouk I by the officers of the Egyptian army

  • Egypt signs military pact with Syria, Saudi Arabia and joined in April 1956 by Yemen

  • Bagdad Pact

  • The United States leaves the conflict

  • Nasser operates the nationalization of the canal and the sequestration of the property of the universal company of the Suez Canal

  • Sèvres agreements

  • The Franco-British troops will come into action (begin a wave of bombings on Egypt to force the reopening of the canal)

  • Beginning of the Musketeer Operation

    Beginning of the Musketeer Operation

  • United Nations General Assembly (United Kingdom, France and Israel must repatriate their troops from Egypt without delay)

  • Troops of United Nations Organization disembark

  • The intervention force leaves Egypt

  • French boats sail again on the Suez Canal