Foreign Developments: Relationship with the USA

Question 1

What was the ‘Special Relationship’? What did it offer?

Answer 1

UK relationship with the USA offering financial benefits

Question 2

What was a mistake Churchill made with the Special Relationship in post-war era?

Answer 2

He overestimated how much the USA would get back to how it was before WWII

Question 3

What year did Churchill make Eisenhower frustrated with his talking at Bermuda?

Answer 3

1953

Question 4

What did Churchill try and do to reduce Cold War tensions?

Answer 4

Tried to bring the USA and USSR together in a conference

Question 5

How did America feel about Churchill’s peace conference Churchill was trying to organize? What was the result of the conference?

Answer 5

America felt it would not be effective. The conference never happened

Question 6

How did Eden affect the ‘Special Relationship’? What year?

Answer 6

He damaged it due to the Suez Crisis of 1956

Question 7

What did Eden’s handling of the Special Relationship show?

Answer 7

America was vital to keeping Britain’s economy afloat

Question 8

What was Macmillans primary foreign goal when becoming PM?

Answer 8

Restoring the Special Relationship after Suez

Question 9

By what time had Macmillan improved the special relationship after Suez? (To the month)

Answer 9

March 1957

Question 10

What did Macmillan and Eisenhower agree in March 1957?

Answer 10

They would share the control of nuclear missiles

Question 11

Who took over as President after Eisenhower?

Answer 11

John F Kennedy

Question 12

Which nation did Britain get Polaris missiles from?

Answer 12

America

Question 13

What year did Britain get Polaris missles from America?

Answer 13

1962

Question 14

Which missile program had Britain started in 1957?

Answer 14

Blue Streak Missile program

Question 15

What did Britain achieve in 1957 with the hydrogen bomb?

Answer 15

They successfully tested their own hydrogen bomb

Question 16

What year did Macmillan visit Moscow?

Answer 16

1959

Question 17

What could be argued with Khrushchev after Macmillan’s 1959 Moscow visit?

Answer 17

Khrushchev did not push for a removal of Western nations from Berlin further

Question 18

What happened to the Blue Streak missile program in 1960?

Answer 18

It was cancelled

Question 19

What did Kennedy say about Britain’s authority with the Polaris missiles they had bought?

Answer 19

Britain could only use them if the USA were going to use them

Question 20

What role did Macmillan have on influencing JFK to take nuclear missiles out of Turkey?

Answer 20

He did not have a role in it

Question 21

What nuclear missiles did Macmillan buy from the USA?

Answer 21

Polaris nuclear missiles

Question 22

How did Kennedy interact with Macmillan during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Answer 22

Kennedy called Macmillan a few times

Question 23

What did a 1957 White Paper commit Britain to militarily?

Answer 23

Having a larger nuclear force than soldier force

Question 24

What did Macmillan advocate for in terms of a conference? What year?

Answer 24

Macmillan advocated for a peace conference for the Cold War in 1960

Question 25

What was the result of the 1960 Peace Conference?

Answer 25

It did not happen as the U2 Crisis occurred 2 weeks before

Question 26

What month of 1964 did Douglas-Home have talks with President Johnson? How successful were they?

Answer 26

February 1964, they were partially successful

Question 27

What was difficult for Home in developing the relationship?

Answer 27

Lyndon Johnson did not feel inclined to help Britain

Question 28

Why did tensions with the USA deepen when Home was Prime Minister in relation to Cuba?

Answer 28

Britain refused to block sales of Leyland Buses to Cuba

Question 29

What did the USA want Britain to do in Vietnam? What did Britain do?

Answer 29

Wanted UK to send in troops. They did not