Foreign Policy - Key Facts

Question 1

Speech that John Major gave to the EEC which was well recieved

Answer 1

The Bonn Speech

Question 2

Promise that Major made in the Bonn Speech

Answer 2

To put Britain at the very heart of Europe

Question 3

Name of the highly controversial European Treaty

Answer 3

Maastricht Treaty

Question 4

German Chancellor that Major had a good relationship with

Answer 4

Henry Kohl

Question 5

Speech that Thatcher gave to the EEC in 1988

Answer 5

Bruges Speech

Question 6

Name of the Europhiles within Major’s Cabinet

Answer 6

• Chris Patten
• Ken Clarke

Question 7

Name of the Eurosceptics within Major’s Cabinet

Answer 7

• Michael Portillo
• John Redwood

Question 8

Person that set up the Referndum Party

Answer 8

Sir Hames Goldsmith

Question 9

Name of the Party that was the frontrunner to UKIP

Answer 9

Anti-Federalist League

Question 10

Leader of the USSR

Answer 10

Mikhail Gorbachev

Question 11

Name of the American-led coalition into the Gulf

Answer 11

Operation Desert Storm

Question 12

British Army contributions to the Gulf War

Answer 12

• 200 Tanks
• 45,000 Troops
• Special Forces
• Naval and Air Assets

Question 13

President of Iraq

Answer 13

Saadam Hussein

Question 14

Name of the Plan which aimed to stop the conflict in the Balkans

Answer 14

Vance-Owen Plan

Question 15

Treaty that guaranteed Bosnian Independence

Answer 15

Peace Treaty signed in Paris

Question 16

Name of the Yugoslavian President

Answer 16

Slobodan Milosevic

Question 17

Place where the Bosnia Serbs massacred in 1995

Answer 17

Srebrencia

Question 18

Number of Bosnian Men and Boys that were massacred in Srebrencia

Answer 18

More than 7,000