What was the Suez Crisis?

What was the Suez Crisis?

Why didn't the Americans come to help the British, French, and Israelis?

1950s America doesn't like colonialism very much.

[overthrows the democratic government of Iran]

>democratic
Can't be a democracy if you're not allies with the US

>[overthrows the democratic government of Iran]
mossadegh wasn't a "good guy" just cause you watched Fargo lmao. He was just as much a prick as the Shah was. Tbf the coup wouldn't have happened if the Shah didn't see it as an opportunity to reassert monarchical power. The US intervention is only part of the equation. tldr this meme needs to die that Mossadegh would have saved Iran

>U.S and Euros finance Aswan Dam
>Nasser doesn't fully abide to U.S Foreign Policy (Containment, Cold War Bipolarity, etc)
>Nasser says he'll nationalize the Dam (Pan-Arabism n what not)
>Britain and France are really pissed off because the Marshall plan made the Euros dependent on U.S fiscal policy, they still wanted to be imperialists.
>U.S wants diplomacy
>British and France proceed to invade the Sinai, Nasser comes up on top and the third world starts to think Pan-Arabism can be more than a meme
>Wait until 1967 and wait for the Egyptian generals to take taxis home from the battlefield.

this is a basic rundown with a small argument, please ignore my awful grammar

aswam was built with soviet funding. Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal thats why it's called the "Suez Crisis", brainlet

What would happen if the Frano-Brisraelis took the Suez? We're they just gonna hold onto a strip in the middle of unfriendly Arab-land? Was Israel gonna annex the land to the East of it?

Yanks made a song and dance over it because they thought it would make the arabs pro-American.

Oops

they DID take the suez. Israeli tanks were in Egypt proper before they pulled back. A settlement would have seen the reestablishment of British control of the Suez with a strong military presence on the canal to prevent Egyptian fuckery. This being a violation of egyptian sovereignty Nasser would have been cucked and would have collapsed a lot more quickly. I don't think Israel would have annexed anything at the time as I'm not sure how serious they were about holding the Sinai ever. Still a settlement in favor of the british would have been greatly to their advantage as a weakened egypt is less of a threat to israeli encirclement by arab powers.

No one in America gave a shit. And making the Arabs to like an infidel power was a distant second to America trying to stop Soviet threats of "missiles raining down on Western Europe".

It was the Soviets who were trying to fan Pan-Arabism to influence MENA.

You are a child.

the Eisenhower administration were going to finance the Dam.

and I meant to put Canal and not Dam in the third line.

why don't you try answering OP's question

sorry to be rude desu

>Democratically elected
>US overthrows him
>hey why did you overthrow our democratically elected leader and install a violent dictator
>LMAO DUMB SHILL HE WAS AS BAD AS THE GUY WHO KILLED TENS OF THOUSANDS AND OPPRESSED MILLIONS THE US BACKED INTERVENTION TO LOWER OIL PRICES IN CAHOOTS WITH MONARCHISTS WHO WANTED POWER WAS ONLY HALF THE ISSUE YOU SEE

Why help some has been countries trying to revive their old glory in an embarrassing way

>Democratically elected
he wasn't. he was elected by parliamentary procedure. he lost shia-establishment support when he delegated himself emergency powers to combat the Anglos by nationalizing the AIOC. He used his emergency powers to remake Iranian society and he stepped on way too many toes for his plans to realistically succeed.
>US overthrows him
they didn't. the Iranian army overthrew him, albeit with the consent of the US.
>hey why did you overthrow our democratically elected leader and install a violent dictator
the monarchy had already existed and pahlavi was already on the throne. his decision to rule as his father Reza Shah did was not anything new.

>No mention of israel
:thinken:

>Fargo lmao.

Yeah, that's the dignified way to do things in that era. Britfags had no tact.

>What was the Suez Crisis?

Probably the most short sighted foreign policy decision ever made by a U.S administration. In the UK Suez is still a byword for the end of British power and a symbol of U.S treachery towards his so-called friend and ally.

France and Britain need to maintain their colonial ties to prevent losing the Cold War
America says no because Britain getting the Suez Canal back MIGHT make all of the backstabbing arabs unite for some reason
Threatens to let Russia nuke Britain and France unless they stop, so they do stop
This """weakness""" of Israel losing a war makes the Arabs and Syrians more aggressive towards Israel and leads to things like the six day war