Thatcher and Europe
- Created by: YellowYeti
- Created on: 15-05-13 17:38
View mindmap
- Thatcher and the Empire
- Rhodesian Crisis 1979
- Ruled by illegal white minority - Ian Smith
- Robert Mugabe - Marxist, uses violence to attain power
- Thatcher = suspicious of Mugabe, sympathised with Smith
- Cautious approach angers Commonwealth
- Uses Commonwealth meeting and Queen to come to a solution - hand Rhodesia to Mugabe.
- Solution angers right wing members of her party
- Uses Commonwealth meeting and Queen to come to a solution - hand Rhodesia to Mugabe.
- Cautious approach angers Commonwealth
- Falklands Conflict
- Set of islands 7000 miles from Britain
- Argentina had aspirations to take the islands
- 1981 = military coup, Galteiri becomes leader. Invades Falklands April 1982.
- Thatcher sends task force - ignores the diplomatic solution which the US desire.
- Cost £2.7 billion in times of domestic austerity = not worthwhile?
- Casualties - sinking of HMS Sheffield. May 21st British forces land.
- Argentinean forces surrender 14th June.
- Thatcher = more popular. Re-elected 1983.
- Regain's British prestige and world power status
- US support = beneficial
- Argentinean forces surrender 14th June.
- Failure to foresee the conflict.
- Thatcher sends task force - ignores the diplomatic solution which the US desire.
- Hong Kong 1983
- 1983 Hong Kong reclassified as a dependent territory
- Britain's lease to expire within 20 years
- 1984 - Anglo-Chinese agreement = transfer Hong Kong to People's Republic of China in 1997.
- Thatcher gains concessions - promise of high degree of autonomy for at least 50 yrs.
- Made most of an impossible situation.
- Coul've retained control of her richest colony for longer - but handed it over to Communism despite anti-communist beliefs.
- Thatcher gains concessions - promise of high degree of autonomy for at least 50 yrs.
- 1983 Hong Kong reclassified as a dependent territory
- Commonwealth
- Strained relationship over apartheid regime in South Africa
- Commonwealth want Britain to impose economic sanctions. Thatcher refuses.
- 1984 - Commonwealth threaten breakup at Nassau
- Thatcher imposes limited sanctions - her actions damaged Britain's standing in the Commonwealth
- 1984 - Commonwealth threaten breakup at Nassau
- Thatcher opposed regime but thought sanctions would affect poor African workers.
- Thatcher convinced S. Africa to release nationalist leader Nelson Mandela
- Commonwealth want Britain to impose economic sanctions. Thatcher refuses.
- Strained relationship over apartheid regime in South Africa
- Rhodesian Crisis 1979
- Uses Commonwealth meeting and Queen to come to a solution - hand Rhodesia to Mugabe.
- Solution angers right wing members of her party
Comments
No comments have yet been made