Foreign Affairs Flashcards
1
Q
What religious implication caused threat from Catholics?
A
- Excommunication in 1570
- Elizabeth’s Catholic subjects no longer needed to obey their sovereign
2
Q
What were the plots to kill Elizabeth?
A
Ridolfi, Throckmorton, Parry and Babington
3
Q
What plot led the the execution of Mary QoS?
A
- Babington
- Codebreaker showed Mary was complicit in the plot
4
Q
When was Mary QoS executed?
A
1587
5
Q
How did Anglo-Spanish relations deteriorate in the 1560s?
A
- 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
6
Q
When did Elizabeth Expel the Sea beggars? what did it lead to?
A
- 1572
- Revolt against Spanish forces
- 1576 Pacification of Ghent, expulsion of foreign troops
7
Q
What was the treaty of Joinville? When?
A
- Spain and Catholic league in France
- 1584
- Strong Catholic alliance
8
Q
What was the treaty of Nonsuch? When?
A
- England and Dutch Protestants
- Lots of Divisions and ill discipline
- 1585
9
Q
When was the Spanish Armada?
A
- 30 July to 6 August 1588
10
Q
When did Drake Occupy Cadiz? What was its effect?
A
- 1595
- Phillip II was humiliated and sent a response however defeated by storms
