Relations With + Policies Towards USA + USSR

Question 1

What were the policies like after WW2

Answer 1

-dominated by early years of Cold War - Br + US close allies
-after WW2 Br + US allies in opposing spread communism across Europe
-Br founding member NATO 1949

Question 2

Br relations with US

Answer 2

-Br supported UN in Korea + worked with US sustain Berlin
-Mac kept good relationship with Eissenhower’s successor JFK
-US kept Br unformed during Cuban Missile Crisis — communist cuba wanted USSR station nuclear weapons in Cuba but US feared this as Cuba only 90 miles away
-although Thorneycroft described Br as bystanders during crisis
-appeared Br kept position in international ‘top table’

Question 3

When was the ‘special relationship under strain’

Answer 3

-under strain in the Burgess + Maclean affair, Br relationship with EEC + the suez crisis
-burgess + Maclean affair — 2 highly placed Br officers in intelligence deflected to societ union 1951 + years after concerns on finding ‘third man’ who tipped them off
-revelation Br spies leaking info to movie to deeply worried US who much less ready share secrets with Br