Foreign Policy

Question 1

Examples of foreign policy?

Answer 1

• Suez Crisis
• Korean War (Cold War + North Korea and China)
• Falklands War
• The Gulf war

Question 2

Suez Canal narrative?

Answer 2

• Asked Israel to invade first
• Britain comes in as peace keepers to protect Suez Canal
• War did not need to happed –> kill people and undermine fragile peace
• US refuse to help but France does
• Huge military success, but international condemnation

Question 3

Korean War

Answer 3

• Communist North invade capitalist South
• China isn’t in the UN and Russia isn’t in the UN
• Security Counsellors of UN –> Vito power over anything
• Invade North Korea
• Chinese push USA back –> devolves into trench warfare

Question 4

Falklands War narrative:

Answer 4

• Britain fought alone
• Get sideliner missiles from USA (special relationship between Thatcher and Ragan)

Question 5

The Gulf War narrative: Iraq and Iran

Answer 5

• Iraq (Dictator Suddam Hussain)
• US pay him to invade Iran (Iran funded by Russia)
• Iraq was about to win, so Ragan started funding Iran too

Desert Stall

Question 6

The Gulf War narrative:

Answer 6

• Suddam Hussain invades Quasi-state
• Expecting Russia to fund one side and USA to take the other
• USA funds Quasi-state and no one funds him
• George Bush Senior –> Iraq resistance led
• Intelligence gets George Bush Senior to stop
• Iraq resistance is tortured
• George Bush Junior then invades Iraq later