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Cartography for the common defense
This is an August 1956 map of Port Said, Egypt, one of the thousands of maps created by the Department of Defense. They cover most of the world’s land masses, at...
Daily diary of President Eisenhower
President Dwight D. Eisenhower made this entry in his diary on August 8, 1956, about two weeks after Egypt President, Gamal Abdel Nasser, announced that the Egyptian...
Suez, 1956
After Israel invaded the Sinai Peninsula on October 29, 1956, President Eisenhower held an urgent meeting with his national security advisors. A few months earlier,...
Search results 1 - 3 of 3 for the tag Suez Canal