Britain Timeline 1951-2007 Foreign Policy

  • Korean War - 90,000 British Troops Deployed

  • $858 IMF Loan after Suez Crisis

  • 1958 UK-US Mutual Defence Agreement

  • Nassau Agreement

  • Skybolt Crisis

  • UK EEC application Vetoed by Charles De Gaulle

  • Lyndon B. Johnson refuses to meet Harold Wilson

  • UDI Rhodesia Crisis with Ian Smith

  • UK EEC application vetoed by Charles De Gaulle

  • Yom Kippur War

  • 1973 EEC Applicaton Successful

  • 1975 EEC Referendum

  • 1977 Callaghan Son-In-Law appointed British Ambassador in the US

  • I want my money back

  • Falklands War

  • Thatcher authorised US missiles on UK soil for Libya airstrikes

  • Recapture of Grenada

  • UK rebate success of 66% at FontaineBleau

  • Sino-Anglo Agreement 1984

  • She famously says 'Gorbachev is a man I can do business with'

  • Bruges Speech where Thatcher argued against a european superstate

  • Thatcher saying No! No! No! at Dublin

  • The UK joins the ERM

  • The Sun releasing 'Up Yours Delors'

  • Gulf War 450,000 Troops deployed

  • Black Wednesday

  • Bosnia War 24,000 aid troops under operation grapple

  • Maastricht Treaty signed however opted out on Euro and Social Chapter

  • 9/11

  • Iraq War