Foreign Policy - Key Facts

Question 1

Name of the British spy that was used in the Cuban Missile Crisis

Answer 1

Colonial Oleg Penkovsky

Question 2

Place where American based their Polaris Nuclear Missiles

Answer 2

Holy Loch, Scotland

Question 3

Agreement that got Polaris for Britain

Answer 3

Nassau Agreement

Question 4

US President that Macmillan had a good relationship with

Answer 4

President John F. Kennedy

Question 5

Agreement that meant the United States agreed to share nuclear technology

Answer 5

Mutal Defence Agreement

Question 6

Number of people that took part in demonstration at the weapons research base at Aldermaston in Berkshire

Answer 6

8,000

Question 7

Name of the organisation Britain helped create

Answer 7

European Free Trade Association

Question 8

What were the fears of De Gaulle with letting the UK into the EEC

Answer 8

• French-German Axis
• American Trojan Horse

Question 9

Names of countries which gained independence

Answer 9

• Ghana (1957)
• West Indies (1958)
• Nigeria and Cyprus (1960)
• Tanganyika and Sierra Leone (1961)
• Kenya (1963)

Question 10

Problems other European countries had in decolonisations

Answer 10

• Belgium - Congo Crisis
• Portugal - Angola and Mozambique Wars
• France - Indochina War and Algerian War of Independence

Question 11

Name of Macmillan’s speech in South Africa

Answer 11

Winds of Changes Speech

Question 12

Event that occured as a result of the Winds of Changes Speech

Answer 12

Sharpville Masacre

Question 13

Three events that were problematic for decolonisation

Answer 13

• Mau Mau Uprising
• Cyprus with the EOKA
• Malayan Emergency