Egypt is crushed in the Six-Day War.…

Egypt is crushed in the Six-Day War.

Nasser resigns; however, a popular outpouring of support, only partially manipulated by the government, refuses the President's resignation. (But the Nasser era is, in fact, over. In both domestic and foreign affairs, Nasser begins a turn to the right that his successor, Anwar el-Sadat, is to accelerate sharply.)