Foreign Affairs

Question 1

role Britain should play in the post- war in international order

Answer 1

• Britain became one of the big 5 members of the UN security council
• Britain chose to side with the USA in the cold war divide
• Britain declined becoming formally involved with Europe
• Britain granted India Independence
• Britain became a nuclear power

Question 1

what was the cause of Britain placing itself as a world power

Answer 1

huge economic strain

Question 2

the USSR

Answer 2

while the USSR did not want war it wanted to expand and therefore Western countries needed to unite to prevent Soviet expansion

Question 3

Britain and America

Answer 3

Due to Marshall Aid, Britain became slaved to America and this left a lasting impact on Atlee and the left wing

Question 4

Berlin Airlift (1948-9)

Answer 4

USA and Britain planned to prevent the Soviet Union from attacking and imposing restrictions on Germany, therefore they used their planes to break the siege by using a massive airlift of essential supplies

Question 5

Korean war (1950-3)

Answer 5

Britain gave the USA support to back Korea.
- 1788 servicemen killed and missing
- 2498 wounded

Question 6

labour and Europe

Answer 6

Schuman plan- coal and steel community (ECSC), Britian chose not to join this as promised relationship with USA instead

Question 7

labour and Indian independence

Answer 7

• end of empire
• broke their world power status and their power in general

Question 8

Britain’s independence with nuclear deterrents

Answer 8

BEVIN - wanted to maintain party it needed its own weapons

ATLEE- USA cannot have nuclear monopoly
- bombs were being made
- huge financial burden

Question 9

labour’s attitudes to the bombs

Answer 9

unhappy as they were not told or asked and they felt that it was unnecessary

Question 10

hydrogen bomb

Answer 10

1957

Question 11

atomic bomb

Answer 11

1952