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Aswan Dam
A major hydroelectric and irrigation dam on the Nile, funded primarily by the Soviet Union after the US and Britain withdrew financing, completed in 1970 as a flagship project of Nasser's modernisation programme.
Six-Day War (1967)
A brief but decisive war in June 1967 in which Israel defeated the combined forces of Egypt, Syria, and Jordan, resulting in Egypt's loss of the Sinai Peninsula and a major blow to Nasser's prestige.