Mandate & Independence · event 5 of 7

1958

The first crisis. A short civil conflict over the presidency and Lebanon’s regional alignment ends with American marines landing on the beach at Beirut and a negotiated settlement. It is a rehearsal that almost nobody read as one.

The Mandate & Independence era

  1. 1920
  2. 1932
  3. 1943
  4. 1948
  5. 1958
  6. 1966
  7. 1968

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