OPVL Exercise: The Suez Crisis

The goal of this exercise is to familiarize students with the documents related to the 1956 Suez Crisis. Students will build on their prior knowledge on the subject, based on their annotated readings, journal writings, and in-class discussions, to produce a detalied comparison of the related documents (these documents can be found on pp. 128-132.). Before beginning this exercise, students should also review the OPVL Rubric before beginning the exercise.

Students should produce a 4×4 table for all four documents. Students will have 60 minutes to complete this exercise: (1) reading & annotating the documents (2) identifying the Origin, Purpose, Value and Limitations for each document; short sentences or bullet points are fine; (3) creating and filling a table for all of the documents; and (4) posting the table to your portfolios. Once this is completed, the class will review and critique at least 4 examples of student work in class.

• Speech by President Nasser Justifying the Nationalization of the Suez Canal Company 28 July 1956 [Excerpts]
• Anthony Eden’s Views of Gamal Abdul Nasser (a) In his Memoirs (b) In a Letter to Eisenhower, 6 September 1956.
• Speech to the Security Council by Abban Eban, Israel, on his Country’s Offensive in Siani 30 October 2956
• President Nasser’s Response to the Anglo-French Ultimatum 1 November 1956