Dominions

Question 1

Dominions phrase formalised

Answer 1

1907

Question 2

Dominions during the inter-war period are…

Answer 2

Australia 
Canada
New Zealand 
Newfoundland 
Union of SA (1910)
Irish Free State (1921-37)

Question 3

Imperial War Conference

Answer 3

1917

Dominions were promised a conference to discuss their future autonomy after the war

Question 4

Canada and SA refused to back British policy regarding Turkey

Answer 4

1922 - refused to back British policy defending the straits of Chanak against Mustapha Kemal

Question 5

Halibut Fisheries Treaty

Answer 5

1923 - allowed Canada to negotiate the Halibut Fisheries treaty with America as an independent nation - set a precedent

Question 6

Treaty of Lausanne

Answer 6

1923

Question 7

Canada and Irish Free State refused to accept any responsibility for the Treaty of Lausanne

Answer 7

1924

Question 8

Treaty of Locarno

Answer 8

1925 - British exempted dominions and India from its provisions unless they wanted to - showed that the Empire no longer had a united foreign policy

Question 9

Dominions Office created

Answer 9

1925
Overseen by a Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs
Also controlled policy regarding the self-governing crown colony of S Rhodesia

Question 10

Balfour Definition

Answer 10

1926
‘autonomous communities within a Commonwealth of Nations’
‘united by a common allegiance to the Crown’
Came out of the 1926 Imperial Conference

Question 11

Hertzog’s response to Balfour

Answer 11

‘I have no fear of Empire any longer’ - shows the confidence in Balfour
(Hertzog = SA PM since 1924)

Question 12

Statute of Westminster

Answer 12

1931 - dominions now had legislatures independent of Britain
Born out of Imperial Conferences in 1929 and 1930

Question 13

Statute of Westminster was immediately ratified in…

Answer 13

SA, IFS and Canada

Question 14

Statute of Westminster ratified in Australia

Answer 14

1942

Question 15

Statute of Westminster ratified in New Zealand

Answer 15

1947

Question 16

Statute of Westminster ratified in Newfoundland

Answer 16

Never (but this area became part of Canada in 1949 anyway)

Question 17

Ottawa Conference

Answer 17

1932

Strengthened economic ties between Britain and the dominions

Question 18

How were the dominions represented at the Paris Peace Conference and in the LON?

Answer 18

They were each represented separately (not just Britain representing them all)

Question 19

Which dominions also declared war on Germany in 1939? (even though they didn’t have to)

Answer 19

AUZ 
NZ 
Canada 
SA 
(basically everyone except Ireland)