6. foreign policy

Question 1

Who was foreign minister?

Answer 1

Robin Cook

Question 2

Robin cook wanted to pursue an?

Answer 2

‘ethical foreign policy’

Question 3

What did Britain persuade NATO and the US to do?

Answer 3

relaunch airstrikes against the Serbian forces

Question 4

When did the US sanction Saddam Hussain?

Answer 4

1998

Question 5

When did Labour become a pro-European party?

Answer 5

1983

Question 6

What did Blair say about the EU in in 1994?

Answer 6

‘under my leadership I will never allow this country to be isolated of left behind’

Question 7

Amsterdam 1997?

Answer 7

Britain abandoned with opt-out on EU employment and social policy

Question 8

St Malo 1998

Answer 8

Britain withdrew its objection to a common European defence policy which would operate independently of NATO

Question 9

What year was the GFA?

Answer 9

1998

Question 10

Who was Blair’s Irish counterpart?

Answer 10

Bernie Ahern

Question 11

Who rejected the GFA?

Answer 11

Ian Paisley

Question 12

GFA about terrorists?

Answer 12

all terrorist prisoners to be released within 2 years

Question 13

What % of the Irish Republic agreed to the GFA?

Answer 13

95%

Question 14

What % of the NI public supported the GFA agreement?

Answer 14

71%

Question 15

How many did the 1998 Omagh bomb kill and injure?

Answer 15

killed 28 and injured 200

Question 16

How did Gerry Adams criticise the Omagh bomb?

Answer 16

‘violence must be a thing of the past’

Question 17

What did David Trimble and John Hume win in October 1998?

Answer 17

Nobel Peace Prize

Question 18

When did Brown declare that Britain had not been close to meeting the 5 economic tests?

Answer 18

June 2003

Question 19

When did the rebate become an issue?

Answer 19

in 2004 when the EU extended to include Eastern European states

Question 20

What % recipient of CAP was Britain compared to France?

Answer 20

9% compared to France’s 22%

Question 21

How many EU regulations did Britain accept by 2006?

Answer 21

over 3000

Question 22

What did the IRA announce on 28th July 2005?

Answer 22

it was giving up its weapons and using ‘exclusively peaceful means’

Question 23

What did the UVF do in 2006?

Answer 23

renounced violence

Question 24

What year was the St Andrews Agreement?

Answer 24

October 2006

Question 25

What was the St Andrews Agreement?

Answer 25

- restoration of NI assembly - DUP agreed to share power with republicans and nationalists in NI executive - Sinn Fein accepted authority of the Police Service in NI

Question 26

Who was appointed as first minister and deputy first minister in 2007?

Answer 26

first minister- Ian Paisley (DUP) deputy first minister-Mark McGuiness

Question 27

Tony Blair announced after 9/11?

Answer 27

'stood shoulder to shoulder with our American friends'

Question 28

When was the Blair Doctrine expressed?

Answer 28

Chicago 1999

Question 29

What was the Blair doctrine?

Answer 29

- where diplomacy does not work, force should be used - the US and UK should play a special role in international affairs - wherever possible, they should act with the sanction of the UN

Question 30

quote from Blair's speech to the commons?

Answer 30

'Saddam's weapons of mass destruction programme is active, detailed and growing'

Question 31

What did the dossier become known as?

Answer 31

the dirty dossier

Question 32

When did Robin Cook resign?

Answer 32

2003 in opposition saying that the war had neither international agreement nor domestic support

Question 33

Charge about Blair and Bush?

Answer 33

Blair was Bush's poodle

Question 34

Who formed a new anti-war party?

Answer 34

Labour MP George Galloway

Question 35

Who committed suicide in 2003?

Answer 35

Dr David Kelly

Question 36

What did Dr Kelly do two months before he died?

Answer 36

had confided to a BBC journalist his concern that the gov had exaggerated the findings of the JIC dossier

Question 37

What did Andrew Gilligan say on the radio about the dossier?

Answer 37

the government had 'sexed up' the report at the promptings of Alastair Campbell

Question 38

When were the London bombings?

Answer 38

7th July 2005

Question 39

How many people were killed in the 7/7 bombings?

Answer 39

56 and 700 injured

Question 40

Who were witnesses at the government inquiry over Dr Kelly's death?

Answer 40

Alastair Campbell and Tony Blair