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The revolution was led by Muhammad Naguib and Gamal Abdel Nasser. The revolution was initially aimed at overthrowing King Farouk. But also to abolish the constitutional monarchy and end the british occupation.
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Gamal Abdel Nasser was the second president of Egypt. He plannes the verthrow of the monarchy in 1952 and became deputy prime minister. He reformed Egypts policies until he was approved as the new president in June 1965. Nasser was 5 years in office, until he died of a heart attack on September 28th 1970.
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The Suez Crisis, also called Tripartite Aggression was an invasion of Egypt in the autumn of 1956 by Israel, France and Britain to regain Western control of the Suez canal and to remove president Nasser from power.
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The United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Nations forced the three invaders to withdraw.
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The Six Day War, or also called the June War, was fought between Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt ( United Arab Republic ), Syria and Jordan.
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The U.S. imposed a new embargo for all Middle East countries which remained in force till the end of the year.
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Muhammad Anwar El Sadat was the third president of Egypt, in office from October 15 1970 until his his assassination by fundamentalist army officers on 6 October 1981. He changed Egypts policies and re-instituted a multi party system. He led the country through the Yom Kippur War and negotiated with Israel and established the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty.
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The Yom Kippur war, or 1973 Arab-Israeli war, was a war fought by the coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria against Israel. Egypt was supported by Morocco, Iraq, Jordan, Algeria, Cuba and Tunisia.
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The Camp David Accords, signed by President Jimmy Carter, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, established a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt.
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The Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty was the official end of the Arab-Israeli War. It included the normalization of relations and the complete withdrawal by Israeli troops. It also provided for the free passage of the Suez Canal for Israelis. Egypt promsided to leave the zone unmilitarized.
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On 6 October 1981, Sadat was assassinated during the annual victory parade in Cairo to celebrate Egypt's crossing of the Suez Canal. The Egypt-Israel Peace treaty was one of the primary factors that led to his assassination.
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Muhammad Hosni El Sayed Mubarak was appointed Vice President of Egypt by President Anwar Sadat in 1975 and assumed the presidency on 14 October 1981, eight days after Sadat's assassination. He was the longest serving ruler of Egypt for almost 30 years. Mubarak stepped down after 18 days of demonstrations during the 2011 Egyptian revolution.
