Crisis in the Middle East: An Introduction to Suez 1956
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- Опубліковано 6 лип 2024
- Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with a video on the beginning of the Suez Crisis in 1956
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Switzerland was so unaligned that it didn't participate in the non-aligned movement
Non-alignment movement: Hey Switzerland, we're all gonna stay out of this.
Switzerland: What's this "we" you speak of?
Jajaja classic
"I'm too neutral for this shit" Switzerland 1950's
"I'm too neutral for the neutral assembly"
All i know is my gut says maybe.
That awkward moment when one big boat accomplishes what two super powers couldn't do
”Whoops” -someone
The end of the French and English empire. The real start of the modern superpowers.
>English empire
@@TheCol111 yeah the French Empire is still a thing, sort of
@@luckychops2162 In what way is the French Empire still a thing?
British Empire*
London got mad, Cecil Rhodes rolled, I got happy.
Bye!
Fun Fact: When Nasser decided to take the US's bribe and then not join their alliance, he then used it to build the Cairo Tower - which at the time was the tallest building in Africa and was used as a power projection. Not only that but he built it so that it was in the direct line-of-sight of the US Embassy in Cairo. I don't really like the guy, but credit where credit's due, that's a pro-gamer move.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_Tower#History
Why don't you like the guy? He was an extremely clever and pragmatic player, and not especially ideological, which is ironic seeing as there was an ideology that carried his name. Nasserism was what led to the short-lived Union of Arab Republics.
Stephen Jenkins well, the power of hindsight is still always 20/20. There is no real way that Nasser could’ve known that the US would make it out on top in the Cold War as early as 1956. As a matter of fact it was probably an equally smart move to have sided with the Soviets given the situation back then. As mentioned in the video, he saw the US as untrustworthy due to the Israeli aggression in Gaza, so the only natural alternative was the USSR. Besides, most of geopolitics is just asshole moves in a diplomatic zeal.
@Reshpeck There are a lot of nuances to that opinion, but it generally boils down to him being an incompetent military leader, having floundered in two wars with Israel, in addition to his disastrous campaign in the Yemeni civil war (a topic which is surprisingly neglected a lot in contemporary Arab history) which drained an immense amount of resources from the Egyptian military for minimal political payoff. On top of that his diplomatic skill was generally proven to be subpar. He made initial successes with his pan Arab visions - uniting Egypt and Syria, briefly - but because of his gross negligence of Syrian needs, it turned out more like a colony of Egypt rather a state in a union with Egypt, and when that whole UAR thing fell apart, it basically proved to the rest of the region that political unity was impossible, deterring any future attempts. Also, i would argue that the only reason why the Soviet Union cared so much about British, French and Israeli units pulling out of Egypt after the Suez crisis, was because of Egypt’s strategic position, not because Nasser was some diplomatic genius who swayed Kruschev into his corner.
@@itszyad4332 He was no diplomatic nor strategic genius, though his ascent to power was quite remarkable, akin to the fictional account of Shogun by James Clavell. He only got there by being utterly convincing in his supposed lack of desire to be in charge.
I should walk back my claim that he wasn't ideological, however. His disastrous involvement in Yemen was ideological in nature. But he wasn't completely incompetent. Socialism is garbage but Nasser's application of its practical tenets were appropriate for Egyptian domestic reform and did a lot to lift the country out of an essentially feudal system of governance. In addition to his suppression of Islamic political influence, Egypt did extraordinarily well economically as a result, compared to most other Arab states after decolonization.
IMO it was indeed bold, but incredibly stupid move. For such small sum of money (relative to Egypt GDP), he gave a clear signal that he was untrustworthy.
anybody else notice the LEGO set of the moon landing in the background?
So that's how it was faked
Yeah. Removed all credibility from this video.
Elijah Hartman no it’s real
Wb vault boy from fallout on the desk
@@elijahhartman475 Stop it.
The moon landing was not faked.
Looking forward to part 2!
4:38
Hey!
This is a map of modern day Egypt and Sudan. The map was quite different then. You definitly need to add all of south sudan, and then i'm not sure of the exact borders at that date, but some or most of uganda, eritrea, north somalia, and all of lake victoria
I noticed that too. There was no UAE in the 1950s.
Nasser takes out half (rounded up) of US influence in Egypt and adds 2 USSR influence
The Suez crisis removes 4 US influence from Israel, France and the UK , no more than 2/country
Is your brain ok! or are you having a stroke?
I love history more than just about anything else and that’s the truth but this is by far my favorite piece of history. The suez crisis is one of the most important periods in global history and more specifically it was the changing point for the Middle East.
Awesome content guys. I’m a big fan so keep that in mind when I say it might be a good time to update your tag line. “The trouble with the Cold War is that it doesn’t take long before it becomes heated” is so wordy to be repeated every time. It stands out every time I watch you so I though I’d just say it.
Yup. Great channel, but that tagline does not work.
Would be nice to see the mention of the Aswan High Dam as among the motivations and also Canada's Lester B Pearson in the next video!
Although its evident of the bias I have as a Canadian, but would like to see a video on Canada during the Cold War!
Looking forward to all parts of this!
This is some great content guys. Keep it up!
Love these sorts of videos.
Never thought I'd say this, but a 12 minute documentary piece is easier to digest and remember in detail than a 45 minute one.
Looking forward to part 2
Excellent, factual, and even-handed approach to a very hot button topic even almost 65 years later.
7:25 Nasser: Im gonna do what's called a pro gamer move
I know what I'm watching tonight...
David I know this was a few years back, but this video was very well done. 😊
French missiles have shot more allies than enemies. Whoopsies.
Whilst I was doing my war studies degree I learnt that French equipment is often used as examples for training of NATO members because their arms industry is seen as the most likely to be used against them at some point.
Exocet missles struck the Sheffield in the Falklands war, and the U.S.S. Stark in the Persian Gulf, as two examples.
I love ur channel!
Nasir one very cunning and conniving national leader. But I respect that he had his countries best interests at heard. My compliments to all those who made this video a reality.
Decades after his death and unlimited never ending western propaganda against him till today, yet we still adore him and name our sons after him
@@user-hq6vc2cv5g then you're bunch of fools.
@@kordellswoffer1520you are the fools dear . But for nasser , the suez canal wouldnt have been restored . Uk and france with israel used to robbery
We’ll need a Vietnam in-depth battle series
LOL, yes, long-awaited
Cool. A cliffhanger episode. Wonder how this is going to turn out? I can't wait for next week...
Spoilers: Canada is going to help :D
Cold War: Please mention us at least in passing, we're usually forgotten in anything world history related, even when we played a noticeable role.
Yep... Pearson.
Canada did something significant? That would be first time ever
@@mixererunio1757 The Canadian core of WW1 and 2, insulin shots, the telephone, hockey, lacrosse, Zamboni, a few potential COVID vaccines, a large percent of the fresh water supply, the pulp for masks, and the Canadarm on the space station say hi. Oh woops sorry, I forgot the rule: don't feed the trolls :P
@@danielarmiss3273 My first time was in Canada at the first summit. ... But it was a great thrill a couple of years later when our - economic plan had started ... to hear was how did we explain the American miracle that was taking place. ... And we're providing jobs for a larger percentage of our population than any of the other major industrial ...
well i'm Egyptian and never heard of Canada helping!
Can you tell me how?
Well u just made my day.
US gives Britain and France the shaft, and wonders why they didn’t wade in with them in Vietnam
France had already been there and weren't interested in going back.
This is history that provides geo-political context even today.
Good one 👍
Make a video on 1971 Indo - Pakistan war and creation of Bangladesh.
Nice animations > TV
When will be the ep about Sino-Soviet Split?
and also Vietnam War, unmissable part of the Cold War.
@@Xerxezkov , Sino-Vietnam war needs to be covered. The Vietnam war has been exhaustively covered, so lets put it on the back burner for a while.
@@sztypettto it happened at the later stage of the cold war so I expect it is 2 or 3 years before I can see it covered by TCW channel.
After the missile crisis the sino soviet split should be near
So main topic what the video is titled about would be covered next week
6:00 Are you gonna cut on the SATO proposed by Friedrich Wilhelm von Mellenthin in 1960 featuring Angola, Mosambique, Rhodesia, Unie van Suid-Afrika and Suidwes-Afrika at one point?
Nice video
Are you planning on also covering the indo-pakistan, sino-indian and pakistan-bangladesh wars?
Shoutout to my boy the Ever Given, the instigator of the much less tragic and much more hilarious Second Suez crisis of 2021 (this is a comment that will be extremely confusing to anyone time traveling from the past)
Will the channel introduce the David Camp Accord in 1979 by Jimmy Carter?
I will write on every video a comment requesting an episode about Pacepa affair. The spy who supposedly worked for Moscow, Bucharest and Washington and was a triple agent and was the right hand of Ceausescu. I would love to see the video in the near future and continue with the great work : )
Very good video about egypt to follow the suez crisis could you do the north yemen civil war?
can you do the nigerian and Angolan civil wars?
Where is the Link to Part Two? Or does it have some entirely different name, and "Part 2" isn't in the Title?
In the picture shown at 4:55, is that Yasser Arafat sitting to the left of Nasser?
Yes, Nasser was the real founder & backer financially, politically and militarily for the PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization) to the point that he was an Honorary chief leader of it.
When will there be an episode on the SIno-Vietnamese war & the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia?
I just wrote that as a reply to another comment. +1
Please make video about the 1990-1991 Gulf War in the future?
It will be in the end of this series
@@user-fj5wn9iq5r maybe.
Of course the 1953 CIA coup against Nationalist President Mossadegh in Iran didn't exactly help the US's argument of who was to be trusted. Shame you didn't mention that. Loving the series, thanks for your hard work!
The Suez Crisis, or Eisenhower's dumbest move.
Perfect for hoi4 cold war
For one fact, Egyptian farmers were taken from their land to build the canal, and many of them never came back to Egyptian under nasser's. They still remember their grandparents who died in canal
Some numbers say that more than 120k Egyptian from about 1.5 million workers many of them didn't pay for their work
Let me see if I got this straight: Nasser was such an anti-imperialist that he shipped arms to Algeria and Aden and sought to start a pan-Arab movement?
Just an observation.
"Cliff hangers", as it were, worked fairly well in the age of three channel t.v.
Doing it in the, on demand age of youtube does not make much sense. If someone is truly interested in the subject, they are not going to wait a week for your conclusion, they are going to find it immediately, watch it, and not care about your second half, a week later.
is this actually anything to do with the great war family of channels?
Its made by a different creator. WW2 channel is made by the same people who made the great war.
It is from the creators of the Kings and Generals channel.
What a tangled web...
While the Korean War documentary was okay, it felt a lot like it was just copy and pasted from the Kings and Generals channel. Thats a bit disappointing but i guess i cant really fault you for it. Generally the content has recently felt a little disconnected with no real plot arrow going through and no sense of this is gonna be our focus for now. I find it just odd and dont really find myself excited for new videos unlike when Kings and Generals or Historia Civilis uploads, even though i find this topic more interesting than the time periods they generally cover.
Im not trying to be overly critical and I realize that some of the content is decided on by the Patreon contributors but I just generally felt my excitement for new Cold War videos going down since the political series about the Korean War two months ago. Just trying to leave some criticism although admittedly not really constructive criticism.
Well, yes. Agreed.
I like the host and i enjoy the way the stories are presented although i wish you would just use as much historical footage as possible instead of repetitive shots of the host throughout. This is not meant to be a slight at him either, he is doing his job perfectly fine i just wish I could see more of the historical footage/photographs/shots of actual newspapers from the time to show how this was reported then and so on. Theres so much untapped potential for this already good channel to grow into. Hope you guys can make some adjustments at some point.
Both channels are theirs, they are the same people.
Your background is a bit short and bias against the British....as usual. You forget to mention it was a joint French and Egyptian venture building the canal but due to poor financial management and huge debts Egypt was forced to sell their share of the canal with Britain purchasing it in 1875 amongst other debt forgiveness to the country. In regards to the Anglo-Egyptian war of 1882 that followed somewhat shortly after this purchase, that was spurred on by continuing internal Egyptian government mismanagement giving arise to nationalist and other factions bring major unrest to the region which the flamboyant ruler of Egypt was making an ever growing mess of. The British and French intervened to protect their investment and bring regional stability as the canal was an integral asset to their economies....if not the world’s economy....as world trade routes had now adjusted to the canals presence. I could go on. Anyway my point is please don’t add your personal twists, skim over important information, use suggestive dialogue, or present a bias to history. Whether you agree or disagree with actions of past events, or have a vendetta against a particular nation or people’s, history is complicated and always has multiple perspectives something you’re narratives tend to ignore or brushes over lightly in favour to a perhaps personal bias, this is wrong and dangerous. Your task in attempting a historical narrative for education purposes is to do it correctly (the thoughts and processes that lead them there, what happened, consequences...etc. and most importantly by all parties) so people can gain a deeper appreciation for the topic and understand it fully allowing them form their own views and opinions on these events from our past. It takes great skill to present a narrative of history that does justice to a selected topic and I ask you to please try a little harder. Yes that might mean more work for your team and longer videos however I’m sure if people are truly fascinated and have a willingness to learn then they will watch and appreciate it all the more. Thank you
The end of Rule Britannia, beginning of America Fuck Yeah
Y r d Czechs so good at making weapons? I notice many countries in Asia also buy from them.
Samir Amin used to say that the cold war is a very us/european concept, because it leaves out everything related to the non-aligned movement.
Of course cause they are unaligned why would we care about them.
Except that Sweden was never in Non Aligned Movement and it was signed in Yugoslavia.
Yes Tito, Nehru and Nasser was creators of movment!
So this was where it all went wrong......
Naser was one of the greatest and strongest Arab's presidents ever, he helped most of Arab and world states to get their freedom of the colonization.
You can't be a bigger loser than nasser seriously. What's with this idiotic worship of the worst ruler of Egypt in history. Egypt mostly and the middle east are still suffering from his catastrophic failures especially in agriculture and economy.
4:45 the Sudan here is the truncated Sudan, before 2011 it was bigger including what is today the country of South Sudan.
Does this channel have anything to do with Timeghost?
No. This channel originates from the Kings and Generals channel. That's why you saw that map footage showing the Suez Canal near the beginning, which was featured on their video of the Suez Crisis.
oh man still waiting for greek civil war report
Please include Arabic subtitle or captions
You know your empire's days are numbered when you lose Suez Canal.
Does the host have to fully drink down the beer mug he has next to him after a shoot? If not, who does?
I only wish that science experiment was a beer... ;)
So, not only british took a land in cyprus because the location is near suez canal. British used to own suez canal itself? What a mess....
Nasser wanted a loan to develop the Aswan Dam. This was flatly refused bu US and UK, so Nasser had to nationalise the Suez Canal to obtain some revenue.
Yeah, that's a crucial part of the story. Surprised it was left out.
@@reshpeck The coup against Iran in 1953 was also left out. This also explains why Nasser did not trust the Americans.
“Hey man give me a loan, I really need the money”
“Sorry man, can’t afford it”
“Ok well I guess I’m justified in stealing your territory lol”
Nasser didn't have to nationalize anything, and he had zero right to seize the Suez Canal.
@@AngryCenturion576 Who stole territory from whom?
How is it out of the scope of this channel? I disagree. Wasn’t just Iraqi oil either
He meant the construction of the canal itself.
Egypt didn’t see any of the revenue from the canal? They actually did for the first few decades, they owned 44% of the shares of the canal company. However, the Khedive of Egypt ended up taking something like £30 million in loans, which was almost three times the price of the canal, and had to sell his shares to avoid bankruptcy. This narrative of poor oppressed Egypt and the evil colonizers is extremely simplistic. I expect better from this channel.
AFAIK, the 44% was owned by the man himself, not the people or the Egyptian treasury
Well don't. It's pretty much what they are about. This channel is overrated.
Forgot to mention the reasoning for Israel’s involvement. An invasion of the Sinai peninsula would allow Israel to eliminate fadayin bases and training facilities from which they launched raids on Israeli territory.
Israel destroyed Iraqs nuclear reactors. Using the same logic, Iraq had a right to invade
@@abdirahmanidris290 The fadayin targeted random civilians as well as military. Israel targeted a nuclear weapons program. However the underlying logic that Iraq had the right to retaliate is correct, however they did not because they where not in a position to do so. Iraq having nukes was an unacceptable threat that Israel removed, and Iraq could not retaliate.
@@philippeszwarcbart6507 I would agree that Iraq and other anti Israel nations having nukes could be an unacceptable threat however the actions of the US in the middle east means that nukes are necessary otherwise the US can invade under the guise of freedom and democracy
There is a bigger game here. There are two choke points, Panama Canal and Suez Canal.
America had the Panama but not the Suez.
Carter told Sadat in 1973, we cannot make the Israelis leave the Suez Canal, but if you start a fight then we can get the process going. LOL
The rest is history.
This is like 20 years before that🙄
How can that be?it's only later Carter became US Pres in 1976
@@arielcuenca5037 😆
Content is good. Style of chin up and sometimes side camera, not great.
This was an amazing short documentary- a 12 minute video in which facts constitute maybe 3 minutes and rest is mumbo-jumbo. Anybody here who does not know much about The Suez Crisis- please do not rely on this video for information, there r many other documentaries long & short on the subject on youtube.
Bribery failed?
Yes
Algeria you say? I'm sure nothing much happened there during the Cold War. 😉😉😉
It had a lot of impact actually. Arab nationalism ( communist ) there was met the liberal berber nationalists
Bruh Cold War parent country did the size but Cold War explains it way better go kings and general!!
Countries In Middle East Occupied By USA 🇺🇲 Or Israel 🇮🇱
1948 Palestine
1956 Egypt (Suez Canal)
1967 Jordan (West Bank)
1967 Syria (Golan Heights)
1982 Lebanon
2003 Iraq
2024 Yemen?
I love Ike, but we should have helped Nassar with that damn, by way of The World Bank.
Anthony Eden made a grave, unhappy error, and will be remembered, as such.
Gen. Dwight David Eisenhower will always be remembered as the ultimate human, because he was.
1:29 It's the French that built the canal it's the French who take revenue, legit.
Technically Egyptian workers built it and over 100,000 of them died doing so. Also it’s located in Egypt.
So yeah, perhaps the Egyptians should get some of that revenue as well.
@@michaelsinger4638 irrelevant as they couldn't have built it without French money. It belongs to britian as well as the Egyptians due to their own incompetence was unable to manage the canal and the country at large so they sold their shares to the British and I doubt those numbers. The canal belongs and should again be in the hands of the French and the British as they built it with their money and britian protected it etc.
@@kordellswoffer1520 France and Britain colonised the country though. Its not like it was just business
1882 is when the British should have created the state of Suez, on the peninsula including both sides of the important waterway, focused on making it different from Egypt (not hard, there are a lot of bedouins in the Sinai). That way Egypt would have no claim on the Canal.
The Suez Canal has been built by the French ^^ but the idea remains.
DO THE 1958 LEBANON CRISIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The USA finally ended the rest influence of British Empire and became the only superpower in capitalism world to rival with USSR.
Also should be known as the the time America betrayed her allies.
We technically didnt "Betray our allies" but merely actually accepted International law. Its one of the few times the US actually does that.
So respecting International law and defending the independency of a country against imperialists invaders is betraying their allies? amazing logic
Her 'allies' were subjugating an entire country and were responsible for the murder of hundreds of thousands during their imperial rule of Egypt.
@@MrBumbo90 Well in hindsight though the US regretted this move though, since it gave the Soviets a sphere in the Africa/middle east area.
HistoryFan476ad wrong
Also, Israel's intreset in joining the conflict was that Egypt blocked its access to the red sea and the Indian Ocean in the south
Nassar is a military dictator. Really showing you're colours by not referring to him as such.
he was brought in by CIA anyway.
the Brits may actually have been the biggest pain in the ... to many nations throughout world history
"French OCCUPATION of Algeria"? Algeria was a part of France. It would be nice to see the videos as being less PC and more neutral - how about "French presence in Algeria"?
Top 3 terrorstaates in the 20. century:
3. 🇫🇷
2. 🇬🇧
1. 🇺🇸
Where's Iran and Saudi Arabia?
At least good old Luxembourg isn't there.
I am a time traveler. I am here to warn all of you that Israel will take the canal in 2024.
We planned to do it in 2022 but the ccp virus stalled our plan.
good
They can't take it ..
They will try.
@@MuhammadAhmad-pl4sj hopefully they fail