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British Foreign Policy
Dates related to British Foreign Policy following 1918
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Undergraduate 1
07/26/2016

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1917
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Jan Smuts coins the term 'Commonwealth of Nations'. Balfour Declaration regarding Palestine.
Term
1919
Definition
The Ten Year Rule
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1919 - India
Definition
Government of India Act, follow-up to the Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms.
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1921
Definition
The Anglo-Irish Treaty (Irish: An Conradh Angla-Éireannach), commonly known as The Treaty and officially the Articles of Agreement for a Treaty Between Great Britain and Ireland, was an agreement between the government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and representatives of the Irish Republic that concluded the Irish War of Independence.[2] It provided for the establishment of the Irish Free State within a year as a self-governing dominion within the 'community of nations known as the British Empire', a status 'the same as that of the Dominion of Canada. It also provided Northern Ireland, which had been created by the Government of Ireland Act 1920, an option to opt out of the Irish Free State, which it exercised.
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1926
Definition
Balfour Declaration no. 2
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1931
Definition
The Statute of Westminster
Term
1932
Definition
Ottawa Conference
Term
1938
Definition
Munich
Term
1941
Definition
Lend-Lease
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1942
Definition
Moscow Conference - closer ties between GB and USSR
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1943
Definition
Tehran Conference
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1945
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Yalta Conference, Potsdam Conference,Churchill replaced by Attlee as PM...
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1949
Definition
Ireland Act (<-- Republic of Ireland Act 1948)
Term
1950 -1953
Definition
Korean War
Term
1956
Definition
Suez Crisis
Term
1960
Definition
Harold MacMillan delivers the 'Wind of Change'speech
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1963
Definition
de Gaulle vetoes Britain's entry into the EEC
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1973
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Worldwide oil crisis; Britain admitted into the EEC
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1979
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Lancaster House Agreement - the end to Rhodesian unilateral declaration of independence. Thatcher becomes PM.
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1980
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1982
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1983 - 1988
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1984
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