Funding for the construction of this object was jeopardized by the purchase of 200 million dollars of arms from Czechoslovakia.
Funding for the construction of this object was jeopardized by the purchase of 200 million dollars of arms from Czechoslovakia. The predecessor to this was designed by William Willcocks. One of the first attempts at building something like this was by Alhazen, but he decided it couldn't be done. In 1956 John Foster Dulles announced that the US was withdrawing funding, following the Soviets offering over one billion dollars in funding. It created a body of water known in part as Lake Nubia. The construction of this object was begun by Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1960, who nationalized the Suez Canal in part to pay for its construction. For ten points, name this embankment dam on the Nile River.
Funding for the construction of this object was jeopardized by the purchase of 200 million dollars of arms from Czechoslovakia.
{Aswan High Dam} (Prompt if {High} is not mentioned)