When The World Stood on the Brink of Nuclear War: Superpower Face-off: The Suez Crisis and the Hungarian Uprising

The 1956 Suez Crisis and Hungarian Uprising exposed the limits of U.S. and U.S.S.R. influence despite their superpower status.

The post-war world was dominated by the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R., but the events of 1956 exposed their limitations. On 22 October 1956, following Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser’s nationalisation of the Suez Canal, British Prime Minister Anthony Eden secretly met with French and Israeli leaders in Sevres, France. They agreed that Israel would invade Egypt, with Bri...