The Suez Crisis and the Wind of Change
Assessing the impact of the 1956 Suez Crisis and Macmillan's 1960 speech on British imperial identity.
Key Questions
- 1How did Suez expose the limits of British power in the post-war world?
- 2What did Macmillan mean by the "Wind of Change", and who was his intended audience?
- 3To what extent did the Commonwealth replace the Empire as a source of British influence?
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