PPT-The Suez Canal

Period 3 Introduction The Suez Canal connects the Mediterranean and Red Seas It became a critical passage for ships travelling between Britain and India In 1854 Ferdinand Lesseps French secured an agreement with the Ottoman governor of. 1. REVIEW. Imperialism – Political & economic control of another country. After setbacks in North America, imperialism continued in the East. British rule affected government, economics, health, & social life in India. up Africa. The race for the colonies. The Nations of the world competed fiercely for colonies. The fiercest competition took place on the continent of Africa. In 1875 European powers controlled only 10 percent of Africa. and the Six-Day War. IAFS/JWST 3650. Announcements. Jewish Studies Mix-and-. Mingle: April . 10 . at 6PM at Illegal Pete's (CU . students and graduate students . only). . RSVP to. . Meghan.Zibby. @colorado.edu. Postcolonial Egypt: . Authoritarian Nationalism and the American Empire. James E. Baldwin. Independence in stages. In occupation since 1882, Britain annexes Egypt in 1914.. First World War sees fighting on Egyptian soil and Cairo used as a military base.. Case Study: . Suez Canal. Crisis 1956. Suez Canal Crisis - Egypt. Suez Canal Crisis, Egypt 1956: . -crisis thought to ‘push the world to the brink of nuclear catastrophe’ and ‘threaten World War III’ . Canals, Boxer . Rebellion, Russo-Japanese War, End of Imperial China. The Boxer Rebellion, 1900. Qing (. Ching. ) Dynasty since 1644, were Manchurian. Mainly Han peasant uprising. Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists – belief in protection from bullets. Asia’s. Geography. STANDARDS:. SS7G5 The student will locate selected features in Southwestern Asia (Middle East). . Locate . on a world and regional political-physical map: Euphrates River, Jordan River, Tigris River, Suez Canal, Persian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz, Arabian Sea, Red Sea, and Gaza Strip. . At first the Egyptian air force struck Tel Aviv. Soon after that forces from Egypt, Transjordan, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia all attacked. Most analysts felt the more numerous and better equipped Arabs would overwhelm the Israelis easily. Period 3. Introduction. The Suez Canal connects the Mediterranean and Red Seas.. It became a critical passage for ships travelling between Britain and India.. In 1854, Ferdinand Lesseps (French) secured an agreement with the Ottoman governor of Egypt to build the 100 mile canal across the Isthmus of Suez. . In 1956, two concurrent events transformed the postwar pattern of international relations. The Suez crisis marked the end of innocence for the Western Alliance; henceforth, the . Western allies would never again be able fully to believe in their own avowals of a perfect symmetry of interests. Simultaneously, the bloody suppression of the Hungarian uprising showed that the Soviet Union would maintain its sphere of interest, by force if necessary, and that talk of liberation was empty. There could no longer be any doubt that the Cold War would be both protracted and bitter… Kissinger, Diplomacy, pp. 550-551.. 2/3 of the world’s known petroleum reserves found in the Persian Gulf. Oil provides raw materials and supplies more than half of the energy used worldwide. Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) formed in 1960. Award-winning historian Zachary Karabell tells the epic story of the greatest engineering feat of the nineteenth century--the building of the Suez Canal-- and shows how it changed the world.The dream was a waterway that would unite the East and the West, and the ambitious, energetic French diplomat and entrepreneur Ferdinand de Lesseps was the mastermind behind the project. Lesseps saw the project through fifteen years of financial challenges, technical obstacles, and political intrigues. He convinced ordinary French citizens to invest their money, and he won the backing of Napoleon III and of Egypt\'s prince Muhammad Said. But the triumph was far from perfect: the construction relied heavily on forced labor and technical and diplomatic obstacles constantly threatened completion. The inauguration in 1869 captured the imagination of the world. The Suez Canal was heralded as a symbol of progress that would unite nations, but its legacy is mixed. Parting the Desert is both a transporting narrative and a meditation on the origins of the modern Middle East. Award-winning historian Zachary Karabell tells the epic story of the greatest engineering feat of the nineteenth century--the building of the Suez Canal-- and shows how it changed the world.The dream was a waterway that would unite the East and the West, and the ambitious, energetic French diplomat and entrepreneur Ferdinand de Lesseps was the mastermind behind the project. Lesseps saw the project through fifteen years of financial challenges, technical obstacles, and political intrigues. He convinced ordinary French citizens to invest their money, and he won the backing of Napoleon III and of Egypt\'s prince Muhammad Said. But the triumph was far from perfect: the construction relied heavily on forced labor and technical and diplomatic obstacles constantly threatened completion. The inauguration in 1869 captured the imagination of the world. The Suez Canal was heralded as a symbol of progress that would unite nations, but its legacy is mixed. Parting the Desert is both a transporting narrative and a meditation on the origins of the modern Middle East. [DOWNLOAD] Sur l\'inauguration du canal de Suez, rapport présenté à la Chambre de commerce de Mulhouse French Edition
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