9 Nassar Egypt

Question 1

How did the Ambassador to Egypt (& Sudan) describe King Farouk in 1937?

Answer 1

Lazy, playboy, uneducated, untruthful, etc.

Question 2

How long did he last?

Answer 2

He was overthrown in 1952

Question 3

Who was responsible for his removal?

Answer 3

Gamal Abdel Nassar.

Question 4

What was his philosophy?

Answer 4

Arab nationalism.
Pan Arab unity

Question 5

Did he succeed?

Answer 5

No

Question 6

When did Britain invade Egypt?

Answer 6

1882 to stop a civil war.

Question 7

What was the Convention of Constantinople of 1888?

Answer 7

Britain was given control over the** Suez Canal** area?

Question 8

What control was Britain given at the start of WWI?

Answer 8

Egypt was made a protectorate of Britain.

Question 9

What bad thing happened to Egypt in 1948?

Answer 9

They were part of an Arab coalition that attacked Israel and lost.

Question 10

Who did the Free Officers Movement of the Egyptian army blame the defeat on?

Answer 10

King Farouk

Question 11

What happened near the end of 1951?

Answer 11

Nationalist police groups began to support groups attacking British authority.

Question 12

What happened on Jan 25, 1952?

Answer 12

British killed some Egyptian police in retaliation.

Question 13

What is Jan 5 known as in Egypt?

Answer 13

Police Day.

Question 14

What happened on Police Day in 2011?

Answer 14

Mubarik was overthrown.

Arab Spring

Question 15

Who was Nasser able to recruit to his side?

Answer 15

Mahammed Naguib - head of the military forces

Question 16

What did Farouk do and why didn’t it work?

Answer 16

He declared martial law. The British had to enforce it.

Question 17

Who announced the coup?

Answer 17

A Free Officer - Anwar Sadat

He later became Egypt’s 3rd President

Question 18

How did Britain respond?

Answer 18

They didn’t. They called it an internal matter.

Question 19

What did they do with Farouk?

Answer 19

They let him leave for Italy.

Question 20

What new government emerged?

Answer 20

It was run by the Revolutionary Command Council.

Question 21

What did they declare?

Answer 21

No political parties.
A 3-year transitional rule by them.
Abolished the monacrhy.
Made Naguib President.

Question 22

What happened next?

Answer 22

Nassar went afterNaguib and had him arrested. He was held until Sadat released him in 1972.
Nassar took control

Question 23

What did he do first?

Answer 23

Land reform. They limited how much land an individual could hold.

Law #178

Question 24

What did this do?

Answer 24

Increased their agriculture production.
Mad him very popular.

Question 25

Did he get along with the Muslim Brotherhood?

Answer 25

No. He feared them.

Question 26

What did the Muslim Brotherhood do?

Answer 26

They tried to assassinate him and he retaliated

Question 27

What tested him in 1956?

Answer 27

The Suez Crisis.

Question 28

What were Nassar's issues

Answer 28

Paying for the Aswan dam. Where to buy arms.

Question 29

Who owned the canal in 1956?

Answer 29

Mostly Britain and France.

Question 30

How did Nassar change this?

Answer 30

He nationalized the canal.

Question 31

What did that give him?

Answer 31

Income for the Asawn dam.

Question 32

Who did they close it to?

Answer 32

Israel

Question 33

How did Britain respond?

Answer 33

A secret pact with France and Israel to invade Eqypt.

Question 34

Who invaded?

Answer 34

Israel

Question 35

What did Britain and France do?

Answer 35

They told both sides to have a ceasefire. This had all been pre-planned. This allowed Britain and France to send in troops.

Question 36

What was the world response?

Answer 36

The UN demanded that Britain and France leave.

Question 37

What did this mean for Britain?

Answer 37

The beginning of the end of their world power. | British PM Anthony Eden resigned.

Question 38

What did Nassar do?

Answer 38

Declare victory over GB and France. This made him very popular.

Question 39

What did he do next?

Answer 39

He expelled 25,000 Jews.

Question 40

What is Egypt's Jewish population today?

Answer 40

Fewer than 20 people.

Question 41

What did Eqypt and Syria do?

Answer 41

They joined to create the United Arab Republic from 1958-1961. Nassar was the President.

Question 42

What did Nassar do in Syria?

Answer 42

He went after the Communists.

Question 43

Why didn't his union work?

Answer 43

The Syrians did not get enough power.

Question 44

What did Syria do?

Answer 44

Held a coup against Eqgypt.

Question 45

What did Egypt retain?

Answer 45

The name United Arab Republic.

Question 46

What did he do next?

Answer 46

An unsuccessful 5-year military intervention in North Yemen Civil War..

Question 47

What was his next defeat?

Answer 47

6-day war in 1967

Question 48

How did it start?

Answer 48

Israel warned Eqgypt not to close the Straights of Tiran to them.

Question 49

What did Nassar do?

Answer 49

He closed the Straight of Tiran to Israel.

Question 50

What did Israel do?

Answer 50

Wiped out most of Egypt's Air Force in bombing raids. They occupied the Sinai Peninsula.

Question 51

Who entered the war?

Answer 51

Jordan and Syria - against Israel. They had existing peace pacts with Egypt.

Question 52

How did Israel respond?

Answer 52

They captured the Jordanian West Bank, Egyptian-controlled Gaza strip and Syria's Golan Heights.

Question 53

What did Nassar do?

Answer 53

He resigned but brought back by popular demand. The military took the blame.

Question 54

What happened in the West Bank?

Answer 54

Around 250,000 Palestinians fled or were kicked out.

Question 55

What happened in the Golan Heights?

Answer 55

100,000 fled.

Question 56

What happened in Arab countries?

Answer 56

Jews were expelled and most went to Israel.

Question 57

What happened in the Arab countries?

Answer 57

The Arabs and the arriving Palestinians did not get along,

Question 58

What was created?

Answer 58

The Palestinian Liberation Organization.

Question 59

What happened to Nassar?

Answer 59

He died of a heart attack at 52 in 1970.