Foreign Affairs Flashcards

1
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What religious implication caused threat from Catholics?

A
  • Excommunication in 1570
  • Elizabeth’s Catholic subjects no longer needed to obey their sovereign
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2
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What were the plots to kill Elizabeth?

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Ridolfi, Throckmorton, Parry and Babington

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What plot led the the execution of Mary QoS?

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  • Babington
  • Codebreaker showed Mary was complicit in the plot
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4
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When was Mary QoS executed?

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1587

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5
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How did Anglo-Spanish relations deteriorate in the 1560s?

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  • John Hawkins attempted to break Spanish trading Monopolies in the Caribbean, lead to him being blockaded in Port of San Juan de Ulúa, 1568
  • Support of Dutch Protestants
  • Impounded 400,000 Florins 1568
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6
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When did Elizabeth Expel the Sea beggars? what did it lead to?

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  • 1572
  • Revolt against Spanish forces
  • 1576 Pacification of Ghent, expulsion of foreign troops
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7
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What was the treaty of Joinville? When?

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  • Spain and Catholic league in France
  • 1584
  • Strong Catholic alliance
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8
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What was the treaty of Nonsuch? When?

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  • England and Dutch Protestants
  • Lots of Divisions and ill discipline
  • 1585
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9
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When was the Spanish Armada?

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  • 30 July to 6 August 1588
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10
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When did Drake Occupy Cadiz? What was its effect?

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  • 1595
  • Phillip II was humiliated and sent a response however defeated by storms
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