Great Britain was the Allied nation that controlled the Suez Canal in North Africa during the World War II. The North Africa Campaign of the war was bounded to prevent Germany, Italy, and the remaining Axis powers from gaining control of the Suez Canal and the oil reserves in that region. The Anglo-Egyptian Treaty of 1936, reached by Great Britain and Egypt, allowed Great Britain to have soldiers in Egypt in an attempt to defend the canal.
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