Great Britain gained control of the Suez Canal in 1875 even though it did not finance or participate in its construction. Egypt found themselves in debt so they sold their shares of the Suez Canal to Great Britain.
One of the main ways the tactics of the Civil Rights movement differed from those of the women's rights movement was that the formed relied more heavily on forms of passive resistance and peaceful protest, such as sit-ins and bus boycots.
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Anastasio Somoza Debayle, byname Tachito Somoza, (born Dec. 5, 1925, León, Nicaragua—died Sept. 17, 1980, Asunción, Paraguay), third member of the Somoza dynasty to be president of Nicaragua (1967–79), who was also commander in chief of the armed forces.
