Suez Canal Crisis Analysis

Lester B. Pearson was the secretary of external affairs of Canada and he didn’t have anything great like no peace prize or having anything named after him or he never thought of becoming prime minister. But he did after he made a defining moment in Canadian history because the first problem started with the Suez Canal were the Egyptian leader Gamal Abdul Nasser seized it from Britain and France and the Israeli wanted it back from the Egyptian and Israel forces with the help of British and France attacked the Egyptians to own it back. Then, during the Suez Canal crisis he created the UNEF (United Nations Emergency Forces) on November 4, in 1956, which would create peace between Israel and Egypt. Lastly he got the noble peace prize from keeping
Pearson helped with the Suez Canal crisis by making the peacekeepers or United Nations Emergency Force. The UNEF was created in 1956, November 4. “The UNEF I was established to secure and supervise the cessation of hostilities including the withdrawal of the armed forces of France, Israel and the United Kingdom from Egyptian territory and, after the withdrawal, to serve as a buffer between Egyptian and Israeli forces” (Common Menu Bar Links). UNEF II was established to look over the conflict of Egypt and Israel and that the countries were following the rules of the agreement on 18 January 1974 and 4 September 1975 to redeploy Egyptian and Israeli forces and the buffers zones according to the agreements. The UNEF would stay in Egypt until Nasser would expels the Suez canal in 1967 on eve the 6th day war with Israel. After the UNEF worked Lester b. Pearson would go on and get the noble peace
Pearson helped save countries and prevents a war from happening. He also saved millions of lives because soviets were ready to bomb the countries against them but Pearson had made a peacekeeping group called the UNEF that would help Egypt and Israel from destroying each other. Lester also made people realize that betraying the motherland is okay if you are going to save lives and keep peace. He also gave the Suez crisis back to the Egyptian which till to this day they still own the Suez Canal and named it the new Suez Canal. It is a new water project made for the canal. And finally Lester B. Pearson got the noble peace prize which gave him a huge honor from the chairmen of external affairs to becoming the prime minister of Canada. With the peace prize and becoming P.M he got hospitals, schools and major company’s name after him for his defining moment to Canadian