Churchill’s Three Circles

I. Empire/Commonwealth

A. Sterling Area

II. Trans-Atlantic Partnership/”Special Relationship”

III. Europe

IV. Britain’s Great Power bluster

A. British bomb

Nasser Faces the Challenges

I. Gamal Abdel Nasser, 1954

II. British in Suez Canal Zone

A. Anglo-Egyptian Treaty of 1936

III. West’s Cold War Concerns

A. Middle East Defense Organization (MEDO)

IV. Atacks on Canal Zone

V. “Czech”-Egyptian Arms Deal, 1955

VI. Aswan High Dam Project

Suez Crisis

I. Canal nationalization, 26 July 1956

A. 1888 Convention

II. Anglo-French-Israeli intervention

III. US/UN opposition

IV. Aftermath for Britain

Europe “at Sixes and Sevens”

I. Jean Monnet’s overtures

II. 1950 Franco-German Coal and Steel Agreement

A. 1952 European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC)

III. 1955 Messina Talks

IV. 1957 Treaty of Rome

A. European Economic Community (EEC)

B. European Free Trade Area (EFTA)

V. Macmillan and Wilson Attempt to Join the Party

A. De Gaulle says non

Youth Culture and the “Permissive Society”

I. The Mods

II. The Beatles

III. Class

IV. The Profumo Affair

V. The Challenges from Within