Point 1 of 10 — Lesson 8: Modern Egypt from the 1919 Revolution to the October 1973 Victory and the New RepublicQuestion bank: 0 questions (0 with pictures)
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The British Protectorate over Egypt: Britain's declaration inDecember 1914 ending the nominal Ottoman suzerainty over Egypt and imposing full colonial control during the First World War.
The great popular revolution of 1919: a comprehensive national revolution that broke out after the exile of Saad Zaghloul and his companions to Malta, in which every section of the Egyptian people took part — Muslims and Christians, workers and peasants, and women for the first time — embodying the highest form ofnational unity.
The Free Officers Organisation: a secret national organisation inside the Egyptian army, founded by the leader (Bashmuqadam) Gamal Abdel Nasser, to free Egypt from the British occupation, from political corruption and from monarchy, and to establish a sound constitutional national rule.
The Bar Lev Line: a chain of forts, bunkers, engineering fortifications and an immense sand rampart built by the Israeli occupation on the eastern bank of the Suez Canal, 170 km long, and claimed to beunbreakable except by an atomic bomb.
The victory of 6 October 1973 (the War of the Tenth of Ramadan): the historic military epic fought by the Egyptian and Syrian armies in joint coordination, which succeeded in storming the Canal, destroying the Bar Lev line, toppling Israel's security theory and liberating the blessed land of Sinai.
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