Mushure mekupinda muSuez Canal muna Chikunguru 1956, Nasser unilaterally nationalized the Suez Canal. Mhinduro yaAnthony Eden, uyo akatsiva Churchill saMutungamiri wehurumende, yaive yekurangana neFrance kuronga kurwiswa kweIsrael kuEgypt izvo zvaizopa Britain neFrance chikonzero chekupindira nemauto uye kutora zvakare mugero. Eden akatsamwisa Mutungamiri weUS Dwight D. Eisenhower, nekushayikwa kwekubvunza, uye Eisenhower akaramba kutsigira kupamba. Chimwe chezvinetso zvaEisenhower yaive mukana wehondo yakakura neSoviet Union mushure mekunge yatyisidzira kupindira parutivi rweEgypt. Eisenhower akashandisa hupfumi hwezvemari nekutyisidzira kutengesa US kuchengetedza mapaundi eBritish uye nekudaro kukonzeresa kudonha kweBritish pound. Kunyangwe hazvo kupamba kwacho kwakabudirira zvine simba muchiuto, kupindira kweUS pasina zvinangwa zveUN kwakamanikidza Britain kuti inyadzise kurwisa mauto eIsrael kuEgypt izvo zvaizopa Britain neFrance chikonzero chekupindira nemauto
Oman (1957), Jordan (1958) uye Kuwait