When the US Ended the British Empire

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In 1956, the Suez Crisis exposed a brutal truth of Cold War power politics. As Britain, France, and Israel launched a coordinated invasion of Egypt to retake the Suez Canal after its nationalization, the United States—under President Dwight D. Eisenhower—turned against its own NATO allies and forced them to withdraw, saving Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser and permanently reshaping the Middle East.

This video explains how a militarily successful British and French attack collapsed under American economic pressure. Britain’s foreign exchange reserves were draining, the pound sterling was under attack, and London was desperate for IMF assistance. Eisenhower used financial warfare, IMF leverage, United Nations pressure, and the threat of selling British bonds to force an immediate ceasefire—without firing a single shot. At the same time, Soviet tanks were crushing the Hungarian Uprising of 1956, revealing the shocking reality that the United States was willing to confront its closest allies while avoiding direct escalation with the Soviet Union.

The Suez Crisis marked the collapse of the British Empire as a global superpower, the rise of American dominance in the Cold War Middle East, and the moment when economic power proved more decisive than military force. It explains how decolonization, Arab nationalism, NATO tensions, Israeli operations in Sinai, Anthony Eden’s downfall, and Eisenhower’s foreign policy combined to change world history—and why 1956 remains one of the most important turning points of the Cold War.