Foreign Policy - Key Facts

Question 1

European Treaty from 1997

Answer 1

Treaty of Amsterdam

Question 2

European Treaty from 2001

Answer 2

Treaty of Nice

Question 3

European Treaty from 2007

Answer 3

Lisbon Treaty

Question 4

Blair’s European Initiatives

Answer 4

• Climate Change
• World Trade
• Aiming to ‘make poverty history’ in Africa

Question 5

People in Europe that Blair was close with

Answer 5

• Nicholas Sarkozy (France)
• Angela Merkel (Spain)

Question 6

Nickname given to the former communist states

Answer 6

‘New Europe’

Question 7

Presidents of the United States during this period

Answer 7

• Bill Clinton
• George W Bush

Question 8

Other interventions by Blair

Answer 8

• Yugoslavia
• Sierra Leone

Question 9

Place where the US and Britain invaded in response to 9/11

Answer 9

Afghanistan

Question 10

Terrorist group behind the 9/11 attacks

Answer 10

Al-Qaeda

Question 11

Number of people that died during 9/11

Answer 11

Almost 3,000 people

Question 12

Excuse given to go into Iraq

Answer 12

Dangers of Weapons of Mass Distruction

Question 13

Name of the group that went into Iraq

Answer 13

America and the ‘coalition of the willing’

Question 14

Number of Labour ministers that resigned in response to Iraq

Answer 14

4

Question 15

Foreign Secretary that resigned in response to Iraq

Answer 15

Robin Cook

Question 16

Number of people that attended the ‘Stop the War March’

Answer 16

1 million

Question 17

Person that killed themselves due to parliamentary questioning

Answer 17

Dr David Kelly