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Aswan project and Suez Crisis.
The '''Aswan Dam''' in [[Egypt]], built from 1960-1970, was a project of [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]]. The [[dam]] was built to prevent the [[Nile River]] from flooding and to generate [[electricity]]. The dam's waters drive one of the world's largest [[hydroelectric]] generating stations and are used to irrigate over 1 million acres of farmland.<ref>The New American Desk Encyclopedia, Penguin Group, 1989</ref>
The '''Aswan Dam''' in [[Egypt]], built from 1960-1970, was a project of [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]]. The [[dam]] was built to prevent the [[Nile River]] from flooding and to generate [[electricity]]. The dam's waters drive one of the world's largest [[hydroelectric]] generating stations and are used to irrigate over 1 million acres of farmland.<ref>The New American Desk Encyclopedia, Penguin Group, 1989</ref>
Planning of the dam had major political repercussions: the withdrawal of pledges of finance by the [[United States]] and [[United Kingdom]] in 1956 prompted President Nasser to nationalise the [[Suez Canal]] and led to the [[Suez Crisis]].
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