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| 1955 |
| | | Nasser alarms the west by buying eastern-bloc arms through Czechoslovakia | |
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| 1955 |
| | | Konrad Adenauer negotiates the release of the last 10,000 German prisoners of war held in the USSR | |
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| 1956 |
| | | Civil war breaks out in Sudan between the Muslim north and the Christian south | |
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| 1956 |
| | | Nasser disregards a French and British ultimatum to withdraw from the Suez canal | |
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| 1956 |
| | | Israeli troops invade the Sinai peninsula, a province of Egypt bordering the Suez canal | |
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| 1956 |
| | | The British and French bomb Egyptian airfields, and land troops near Port Said and the Suez canal | |
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| 1956 |
| | | Under international pressure Britain and France agree to a humiliating withdrawal from Suez | |
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| 1956 |
| | | The MPLA (Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola) is formed as a guerrilla movement to end Portuguese rule | |
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| 1957 |
| | | The FNLA is established, with US support, as a guerrilla group to fight for a non-communist independent Angola | |
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| 1960 |
| | | Soviet forces shoot down a US high-altitude U-2 spy plane and capture the pilot, Gary Powers | |
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