Suez Crisis (All Parts): Causes, Conflict and Global Repercussions

This is a series I made back in 2018, re-released as a single documentary, which always seems a more popular format. This is the story of the 1956 Suez Crisis, when the world faced an international energy supply crisis, politicians warned of repeating the mistakes of 1930s appeasement, and a Russian leader was sending tanks into a European capital to crush hopes of greater freedom... The sort of events that until recently, we might have hoped were consigned to history. You can support the channel, get early access to new videos and vote for future topics here: www.patreon.com/EpicHistoryTV

Suez Crisis was indeed the point where US and USSR told Britain and France they are no longer Super power anymore

Even though these are reuploads of old videos, I love these "All Parts" videos. They make it simpler and also help Epic History reach more people, the quality is simply insane.

as an Egyptian, this is better than studying the whole thing in history class

As an Egyptian it's really bleed my heart💔 At this time, our people in the Canal cities suffered a lot (Ismailia, Suez, and the valiant Port Said). Everyone was volunteering to fight the war, children, women, men, and the elderly. Everyone literally threw themselves into the field of war in defense of our Egypt. In fact, whenever I watch or read something about this, I burst into tears, god bless my Egypt🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬

Great walkthrough of the Suez crisis. My grandpa was one of the Danish UN peacekeeping troops sent there. He'd talk in lengths of both the war itself but also the hospitable people of Egypt.

"No nation has friends only interests." - Charles De Gaulle

This is incredible ! Map visualization and original footage from the fifties and in-depth step by step narration ! What a masterpiece :D

In 1956 I was a cadet in my school CCF unit. At about the time the Suez crisis was developing our CCF contingent was at a 2 week annual "camp" at HMS St Vincent in Gosport. HMS ST Vincent was a shore training unit for cadets and boy seaman presumably prior to their assignment as junior seamen on Royal Navy ships. For the first part of our stay there we were the only boys there to experience the Royal Navy services. This included a naked one length swim of the very cold pool before breakfast. During our stay there we visited HMS Dolphin, a submarine depot where we shown on board on one of the vessels. We also visited a Gunnery practice range where we allowed to operate a shore based anti aircraft gun installation (no ammo!). To aid our experience the marine aircraft section provided a real aircraft "attacking" our position from over the horizon. We were to control the gun to follow this target and "shoot it down". We were not very good at that!. Our term at St Vincent was cut short when all boy seamen from the carriers and support vessels in port were transferred to HMS St Vincent. Boy seamen were not permitted on active service. The ships were preparing to leave on the Suez campaign... On our penultimate day at the camp we had a race to climb the flag mast. The race was to touch the "cap" at the top. I think I won that.. ! I am now 83y.o. and the fond memories remain.

Very good documentary film. Britain was never the same following the Sues crisis of 1956. In fact the crisis changed world history.

This was an underrated series of yours. Glad to see it get some more love

The Suez Crisis is the reason we Egyptians have a lot of pride in our country. You won't find a single civilian who's not ready to defend his homeland with anything in any way possible.

Fascinating video! Fills in a big chunk of my missing global history knowledge. Thought it would be boring, but it was shockingly interesting. Excellent use of graphics and historical film clips too!

My takeaway of this was, hey, at least the US and Soviets got to be friends over criticizing both the UK and France.

Although there’s one thing the British did gain from the Suez Crisis… The creation of the Mini Cooper. The Suez Crisis caused oil and fuel prices to sky rocket, which made running a car very expensive. Various manufacturers tried to build smaller cars to make increase fuel efficiency, but they were so small that they weren’t popular. Then Mini came up with a good idea. Instead mounting the engine longitudinally, they mount it transversely. Which in turn allowed them to make the engine bay more compact and make the car big enough to fit four, fully, grown adults inside. And more importantly, it was very fuel efficient. On average the Mini was able to do 56mpg, which is a lot. And to this day, car manufacturers still mount the engines transversely. At least in FWD hatchbacks that’s the case.

One of the rare moments when the US and USSR agreed on something

One million Egyptian workers were digging the canal and 120,000 Egyptians died .

Reminds me of the war documentaries on the history channel I used to watch as a kid when I would visit my grandpa. The quality of this is amazing.

Im so happy that Greece supported Egypt. I would and i am too! Love Egypt from Hellas!!!

This was unbiased, professionally done, interesting, and entertaining. Very good job, crew!