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Which island is strategically important to the U.S. due to its status as apower projection hub that can be used as a forward base that is five days' sailing time closer to Asia than Hawaii?
 a. Guam
 b. Samoa
 c. Fiji
 d. Tuvalu
  e. Nauru

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What were the major issues surrounding the Suez Crisis and the Arab-Israeli War of 1956?


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Reply #1 on: Jul 13, 2018
Answer to Question 1

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During World War II a large focus of the North African campaign was maintaining control of the Suez Canal by friendly forces. Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the canal in 1956 and British, French, and Israeli troops soon invaded Egypt.


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