Thatcher's Foreign Policy and Falkands
Mindmap on Thatcher foreign beliefs and achievements
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- Created on: 21-04-13 18:57
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- Thatcher's Foreign Policy
- The Flaklands
- Was Britain's last colony
- Leftover of our emiralist paast
- Owned by England since the 1820s
- Britain held sovereign of the island
- Strategic power in the South Alantic
- Lost 3 Navy Ships
- Took 2 months for Britain to capture the island
- Made the world think Britain still had power
- Russia is waiting for Britain to fall and lose power
- Got rid of the negativity from Britain losing the Suez
- If Britain never got the land back- Protrayed as weak
- America was disgusted about the falklands recapture
- If Britain never got the land back- Protrayed as weak
- Made the world think Britain still had power
- Captured Britains empiralism
- Aregetina wanted the falklands
- Turned Aregetina into a democracy
- Past leader General Galteria (dictator)
- Turned Aregetina into a democracy
- Was Britain's last colony
- 1979 Election
- Labour's weakness
- Wilson's Resign caused a decline in party unity from 19976-79
- Unemployment was at 1 million
- Thatcher's strenghts
- Her personality, confidence and drive
- Against the big government
- Avoid specific policies to gain a wider demographic
- Strict economy unlike Labour
- Media was in favour
- She shifted her policies to attract the working class
- Labour's weakness
- Thatchers Beliefs
- She didn't like the department called the foreign commonwealth department she felt that it was merging appeasement and foreign decline
- Refuse to accept Britians decline in power
- She was an Atlantis
- Had close ties with American President Ronald Reagan
- 1982 Allowed the USA put cruise controlled missles on British land
- She gained friendship with the Russian Leader Gorbachev
- Still kept trading with South Africa after the commonwealth treaty
- Prolonged apparthied
- Saw Europe becoming a Social Democratic state
- Something Thatcher despised
- Commited to Europe in the 1975 referendum
- Commonwealth
- 1985 Treaty to invoke sanctions against South Africa
- 1986+ Budge speech opposed close intergation
- Strong Allies with America
- The Flaklands
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