The Relationship Between France And The United States In The Early Period Of Suez Canal Crisis

Suez Canal is a canal connecting the Mediterranean Sea and the red sea.France has an important interest in Suez Canal company.The Suez Canal was proposed and organized by French explorers,and France contributed to its construction.And as of the eve of the Suez crisis,France still owned more than half of Suez Canal company,which brought continuous profits to France.And 40 percent of France s oil is transported through the Suez Canal.In 1956,Egypt s general Nasser announced the nationalization of the Suez Canal,which was totally unacceptable to France.More important,1956 was an extremely delicate time for France.After world war ?,France always wanted to restore its great power status.In 1955,France lost its colony in Vietnam,and in 1956,the protectorate Tunisia and Morocco successively broke away from France.Both the government and the people in France are in a very low state.Nasser,the nationalist who led the July revolution in Egypt,was a strong supporter of the Algerian national liberation movement.This angered the French.So from the start of the Suez crisis,France showed no mercy.Insist on military action against Egypt.At this time,President Eisenhower of the United States was facing election problems.After the Korean war,anti-war sentiment was widespread in the United States.Eisenhower could only choose to temporarily abandon the relationship between the United States and France and seek re-election.And Egypt involves the Arab-Israeli conflict.Nor does the us want to touch on this thorny issue.Under these circumstances,France kept preparing for war and the United States kept delaying for various reasons.From July 1956,Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal,to September 1956,France and Britain jointly submitted the matter to the United Nations.The United States and France fought a lot of political battles before the Suez crisis.The full text includes three parts:introduction,text and conclusion.The introduction mainly introduces the significance and research purpose of the topic,the research status at home and abroad,and the materials used in this paper.The first chapter mainly introduces France on the eve of the Suez Canal war,summarizes the war situation of France on the eve of the Suez Canal outbreak,the focus of the Us-France relations in the 1950s,and the relationship between France and the Suez Canal.This part is actually the background of the Suez crisis.The second chapter introduces the attitudes of the United States and France after the Suez crisis,as well as the initial exchange of views between the United States and France.Chapter three describes the expansion of contradictions between the United States and France in the Suez Canal crisis.At the tripartite talks in London,the United States repeatedly rejected France s request for force.Under pressure from the United States,France finally accepted the United States' proposal for a meeting of maritime powers to discuss the issue.Chapter four explores the further development of suez crisis.That is,the United States discussed a modest and acceptable plan for nasser at the London meeting of the twenty-two nations.And the French are adamant.Chapter five summarizes the infighting between the United States and France during the negotiations of the committee of five countries in Cairo.America still wants to buy time and compromise further with Egypt.France,on the other hand,was secretly preparing for war with Britain and unwilling to compromise.Chapter six discusses the dispute between the United States and France over the use of the Suez Canal on the national committee.In fact,this was also a stage when the relationship between the United States and France broke down over the Suez Canal.France eventually united with Britain on the way to war,while the United States finally used the United Nations to stop the French and British troops.The last part is the conclusion.The United States and France had different ideas before the suez crisis.That led to its eventual split over the Suez Canal.As a result,France took a completely different development path in the 1960s,reducing its dependence on the United States,developing an independent nuclear force and participating in European affairs economically.The different views held by the United States and France on the Suez Canal actually stem from their different views on the colonies.As an old capitalist empire,France wanted to make political and military occupation of the colonies for profit.However,as an emerging empire,the United States saw colonization in a different way.The United States hoped to follow the wave of the decolonization movement and make profits by means of capital export.