WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -On July 26, 1956, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser announced the nationalization of the Suez Canal Company, the joint British-French enterprise which had owned and operated the Suez Canal since its construction in 1869.

Detailed explanation-2: -Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein (15 January 1918 – 28 September 1970) was an Egyptian politician who served as the second president of Egypt from 1954 until his death in 1970.

Detailed explanation-3: -On 26 July 1956, Nasser nationalised the Suez Canal Company, which prior to that was owned primarily by British and French shareholders. On 29 October, Israel invaded the Egyptian Sinai. Britain and France issued a joint ultimatum to cease fire, which was ignored.

Detailed explanation-4: -Anwar Sadat, Sadat also spelled Sādāt, al-Sadat, or el-Sadat, in full Muhammad Anwar el-Sadat, (born December 25, 1918, Mīt Abū al-Kawm, Al-Minūfiyyah governorate, Egypt-died October 6, 1981, Cairo), Egyptian army officer and politician who was president of Egypt from 1970 until his assassination in 1981.

Detailed explanation-5: -After World War II, Egypt pressed for evacuation of British troops from the Suez Canal Zone, and in July 1956 President Nasser nationalized the canal, hoping to charge tolls that would pay for construction of a massive dam on the Nile River.