When Dag Hammarskjold was negotiating the Middle East peace after Israel's 1956 invasion of Egypt, he soon found himself speaking the mysterious phrases of Cairo, a language as anarchic as Casey Stengel's.

Eisenhower forced Israel, the UK and France to end their invasion of Egypt during the Suez Crisis of 1956.

In November 1956, Eisenhower forced an end to the combined British, French and Israeli invasion of Egypt in response to the Suez Crisis.

* In 1956 another crisis struck French colonies, this time in Egypt.

* 1956 – President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt vows to reconquer Palestine.

Prime Minister of the Gold Coast ( British colony ) | Gold Coast Dr. Kwame Nkrumah with Egyptian Egyptology | Egyptologist Pahor Labib at the Coptic Museum in Cairo, Egypt, in 1956.

In 1956, under his direction, St-Laurent's Secretary of State for External Affairs Lester B. Pearson, helped solve the Suez Crisis in 1956 between Great Britain, France, Israel and Egypt, bringing forward St-Laurent's 1946 views on a U. N. military force in the form of the United Nations Emergency Force ( UNEF ) or peacekeeping.

* 1956 – Suez Crisis: The United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution calling for the United Kingdom, France and Israel to immediately withdraw their troops from Egypt.

* 1956 – Suez Crisis: The United Kingdom and France begin bombing Egypt to force the reopening of the Suez Canal.

Following the Egyptian dictator Colonel Nasser's nationialisation of the Suez Canal Company on 26 July 1956, Menzies led a delegation to Egypt to try to force Nasser to compromise with the West.

In addition to periods of direct rule by Egyptian governments ( including the Ayyubids, the Mamluks, the Muhammad Ali Dynasty, and the modern Egyptian republic ), it was like the rest of Egypt, also occupied and controlled by the Ottoman Empire, and the United Kingdom ( which occupied Egypt from 1882 until 1956 ).

Israel invaded and occupied Sinai during the Suez Crisis ( known in Egypt as the Tripartite Aggression ) of 1956, and during the Six Day War of 1967.

On 4 November 1956, a majority of nations at the United Nations voted for Pearson's peacekeeping resolution, which mandated the UN peacekeepers to stay in Sinai unless both Egypt and Israel agreed to their withdrawal.

* 26 July 1956 — Egypt nationalizes the Suez Canal Company ; all its Egyptian assets, rights and obligations are transferred to the Suez Canal Authority, which compensates the previous owners at the established pre-nationalization price.

Nasser inspired nationalists throughout the Middle East by fighting the British and the French during the Suez Crisis of 1956, modernizing Egypt, and uniting the Arab world politically.

Clockwise, from left: United Nations soldiers during the Korean War, which was the first UN authorized conflict ; Two atomic explosions from the RDS-37 and Operation Upshot-Knothole | Upshot-Knothole ( Soviet and American, respectively ) nuclear weapons, symbolizing the escalation of Cold War tensions between the two nations in the 1950s ; Israeli troops prepare to fight the Egypt ians during the Suez Crisis of 1956 ; A replica of Sputnik I, the world's first satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957 ; Fidel Castro leads the Cuban Revolution in 1959 ; North Sea flood of 1953

** Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula ( captured from Egypt on October 29, 1956 ).

Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein (, ; 15 January 1918 – 28 September 1970 ) was the second President of Egypt from 1956 until his death.

In January 1956, the new Constitution of Egypt was drafted, entailing the establishment of a new single-party system, the National Union, which would select a nominee for the presidential election whose name would be provided for popular approval.

Nasser blamed the Arab nationalist defeat on the Communists and upon returning to Cairo, he dismissed and arrested many Communists who held influential positions in the press and government, including his old comrade Khaled Mohieddine, who had been allowed reentry into Egypt in 1956.

The full-scale 1956 invasion of Egypt by British, French and Israeli forces, The invasion followed Egypt's decision of 26 July 1956 to nationalize the Suez Canal after the withdrawal of an offer by Britain and the United States to fund the building of the Aswan Dam.

British Petroleum, privatised in 1987, was officially nationalised in 1951, and there was further government intervention during the 1974 – 79 Labour Government Anthony Crosland said that in 1956, 25 per cent of British industry was nationalised, and that public employees, including those in nationalised industries, constituted a similar percentage of the country's total employed population.

However, after the troops had left in 1954 and the Egyptians nationalised the Canal in 1956, Powell opposed the British attempts to retake the Canal in the Suez Crisis because he thought the British no longer had the resources to be a world power.

In July 1956, just a few days after the fourth anniversary of the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, the Egyptian government under President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalised the canal.

Following the abrupt withdrawal of an offer by Britain and the United States to fund the building of the Aswan Dam, Egypt nationalised the Suez Canal on 26 July, 1956, ostensibly to pay for the dam, and established compensation for the former owners.

Kauno Autobusų Gamykla ( KAG ) was a factory in Kaunas, Lithuanian SSR that produced more than 12, 000 buses from 1956 to 1979 — most based on the GAZ-51 truck. The factory was established in an old Ford workshop that was nationalised after Lithuania was occupied by the Soviet Union.

In 1953 the railway was nationalised as the GNR Board, which closed the line through Dromore on 29 April 1956.

In the Middle East, the Suez crisis of 1956 as well as the preceding crisis in Iran, demonstrated the sharp upsurge of nationalism, which was as assertive of the region's social and economic aspirations as of its political independence.

* Suez Crisis ( 1956 )

This was despite major actions in Korea in 1950 and Suez in 1956.

* 1956 – Following the World Bank's refusal to fund building the Aswan Dam, Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal sparking international condemnation.

In 1956 Nehru had criticised the joint invasion of the Suez Canal by the British, French and Israelis.

In 1956, this idea was actualized by St-Laurent and his Secretary of State for External Affairs Lester B. Pearson in the development of UN Peacekeepers that helped to put an end to the Suez Crisis.

Under his editorship, Tribune opposed both the British government's Suez adventure and the Soviet crushing of the Hungarian Revolution in 1956.

* 1956 – Suez Crisis begins: Israeli forces invade the Sinai Peninsula and push Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal.

After the United Kingdom and the United States withdrew their pledge to support the construction of the Aswan Dam due to Egyptian overtures towards the Soviet Union, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the canal in 1956 and transferred it to the Suez Canal Authority, intending to finance the dam project using revenue from the canal.

* 13 June 1956 — Suez Canal Zone is restored to Egyptian sovereignty, following final British withdrawal and years of negotiations.

* 31 October 1956 to 24 April 1957 — Suez Canal is blocked to shipping following the planned invasion of the eastern Sinai by Israel, and later French and British, occupation of the Suez Canal Zone.

Encyclopædia Britannicas 1956 article on " New York ( City )" ( subheading " Greenwich Village ") states that the southern border of the Village is Spring Street, reflecting an earlier understanding ( today, Spring Street might be considered the southern boundary of the neighborhood sometimes called the South Village, though some cite Canal Street as the furthest extent of the South Village ).

Following the nationalisation of the Suez Canal in 1956 by Gamal Abdel Nasser, the United Kingdom, France and Israel subsequently invaded.

On 11 October 1951 the Wafd government abrogated the 1936 Anglo-Egyptian Treaty, which had given the British control over the Suez Canal until 1956.

On 26 July 1956, in retaliation for the loss of funding and to help pay for the Aswan project, Nasser gave a speech in Alexandria where he denounced Western influence in the Arab world and announced the nationalization of the Suez Canal Company, in breach of the agreement he had signed on 19 October 1954.

Bevan was as critical of the Egyptian dictator Colonel Nasser's seizure of the Suez Canal on 26 July 1956 as he was of the subsequent Anglo-French military response.

Under his leadership, Israel responded aggressively to Arab guerrilla attacks, and in 1956, invaded Egypt along with British and French forces after Egypt nationalized the Suez Canal.

In July 1956, the United States and Britain withdrew their offer to fund the Aswan High Dam project on the Nile and a week later, Nasser ordered the nationalization of the French and British-controlled Suez Canal.

Ben-Gurion collaborated with the British and French to plan the 1956 Sinai War in which Israel invaded and occupied Gaza and the Sinai Peninsula, thus giving British and French forces a pretext to militarily intervene against Egypt in order to secure the Suez Canal.

Sudan and Egypt continued to be governed as Anglo-Egyptian Sudan until Sudanese independence in 1956, Britain also had an interest in Egypt until the Suez Canal Crisis was over.