1956 marked the final year of French and British great-power status.
Evidence
1956, crammed with events of far-reaching import, was the year of Eden and Mollet, of Khrushchev and the Twentieth Party Congress; of Budapest and Suez. It was the year that Chancellor Macmillan shocked an inflationary Britain by imposing the highest bank rate in a generation — all of 5½ per cent; and it was the last year that France and Britain would be able to strut the world stage wearing morality play masks as “Great Powers”. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 458
Categorization
- XREF: Sets the global frame for the Suez crisis, which connects to the Egypt-Suez dynamics studied elsewhere on France’s colonial power decline. — connects to: By 1956 the French army’s overriding aim became political, pushing Algérie française. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 948
Related
- By 1956 the French army’s overriding aim became political, pushing Algérie française. (similarity 0.78)
- The Suez debacle jolted French morale and hardened the war’s brutality (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- By 1956 the French army’s overriding aim became political, pushing Algérie française.
#corroborates(0.55) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 948