WORLD WAR I
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
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They wanted to use it themselves as it made their journey to their colonies a lot shorter.
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Mussolini bullied them into keeping the canal open.
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They didn’t think Mussolini would actually invade Abyssinia.
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They wanted to avoid upsetting Mussolini as they were worried he would unite with Hitler.
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Detailed explanation-1: -❖ The Suez Canal, which was owned by Britain and France, provided a short-cut from the Mediterranean to East Africa but wasn’t closed. Britain and France didn’t want to risk conflict with Italy, but this allowed it to build up men and supplies near Abyssinia more quickly.
Detailed explanation-2: -Britain and France feared that Nasser might close the canal and cut off shipments of petroleum flowing from the Persian Gulf to western Europe. When diplomatic efforts to settle the crisis failed, Britain and France secretly prepared military action to regain control of the canal and, if possible, to depose Nasser.
Detailed explanation-3: -Because Britain & France were the 2 leading nations in the League. They were desperate to keep Mussolini on their side, in the Stresa Front, so they didn’t want to upset him with tough sanctions or by shutting the Suez Canal.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Suez Canal was built in Egypt under the supervision of French diplomat Ferdinand de Lesseps and was run jointly by a British-French organization. The man-made waterway-which opened in 1869 after ten years of construction-separates most of Egypt from the Sinai Peninsula.