“They accepted the need to grant increasing self-government and then independence to some of their most valuable colonies - including Ghana and Malaya in 1957 - with the understanding that they remained in the financial sphere British and strategic influence” (Darwin 2). However, this only increased nationalistic movements in the British colonies and dominions. This rise in nationalism among Britain's foreign subjects caught the attention of the imperial government when it was forced to quell uprisings in Malaya, Kenya, and Cyprus. (Darwin 2) By 1956, nationalistic public thinking had led to the Egyptian seizure of power and the nationalization of the Suez Canal. This led to the state of affairs that would become known as the Suez Canal Crisis. “The Suez Canal Crisis of 1956 was a scathing revelation of Britain's financial and military weakness and destroyed much of what remained of British influence in the Middle East” (Darwin 2). The Suez Canal Crisis effectively ended British imperial influence in the Middle East. British imperial influence was never regained in the Middle East region following the disastrous Suez Canal