1956: Suez and the Hungarian uprising through the eyes of the cartoonists

1956 saw the heroic but doomed Hungarian uprising against domination by the Soviet Union, an event encouraged by U.S. anti-Soviet propaganda in the preceding years. Meanwhile France and Britain tried to re-assert their crumbling empires through an attack on anti-colonial nationalism in North Africa and the Middle East: and the U.S.A. inserted itself into the vacuum created by the retreating empires.We will explore these events using political cartoons and some contemporary newsreels; and through tutor led inputs and discussions.