<span>The purpose of building the Suez Canal was to allow ships to travel between the Mediterranean and Red Seas, which would increase trade between the Middle East, Europe, and Asia.</span>
The russians practiced communism where as the west (usa,britain,france) were anti communist. the us were capitalists , thus is would make sense that the ussr and the usa would clash eventually despite their pasts of helping eachother out. once russia clashed with the west it gave way to the cold war
Persian king <span>Ahasuerus</span>