The war that did not end at 11am on 11 November
...ending, at least in the victorious countries. The armistice was agreed at 5.10am on 11 November to come into effect at 11am. The news was conveyed around Europe within the...
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What was happening between the armistice and the opening of the Paris peace talks?
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Tara Finn, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians
...be one of the main powers at the conference, this inevitably meant formal proceedings had to be delayed until a new government had been formed. Lloyd George was re-elected, which...
Lord Carrington: an appreciation
...(1979 to 1982) and one of the most successful. He was lucky that in the early days she was primarily preoccupied with domestic reform and relatively new to international affairs....
What’s the context? 31 March 1939: the British guarantee to Poland
...threatened by Japanese plans for a Pan-Asian ‘new order’, while the USA urged support for the beleaguered Chinese nationalists in the bitter Sino-Japanese conflict. The military challenges were diverse and...
A pyrrhic victory? Victory Day, 1919
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Tara Finn, Posted on:
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Defence and conflict, First World War, Foreign Office Historians
...in the parade, and many others paid their respects there, including the widows of the fallen. The public response was so profound that the newspapers quickly started asking whether a...
Child Evacuees in the Second World War: Operation Pied Piper at 80
...to the Dominions, particularly to Canada, Australia and New Zealand, before the risk from torpedo attack at sea was deemed too great. This comparatively short-lived and voluntary scheme was one...
What’s the context? 1 December 1925: signing the Locarno Treaties
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, What's the context? series
...and Briand for their efforts on Locarno. The previous year it had been shared between Chamberlain for his promotion of the treaty and the American Charles Dawes for his work...
The Lancaster House Agreement 40 years on
...Declaration of Independence (UDI) in 1965, and ushered in the newly independent state of Zimbabwe. The Lancaster House Agreement represented an early diplomatic success for the new Conservative government of...
What’s the context? 8 May 1945: VE Day, the end of the war in Europe
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...into his Presidency), Churchill and Stalin could congratulate themselves on a major achievement. Yet they knew the situation on 8 May 1945 remained precarious and the future uncertain. Fighting continued...
What’s the context? 25 June 1950: outbreak of the Korean War
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Defence and conflict, Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...support, was corrupt and creaking, and distracted by rigged elections leading to a new Assembly meeting on 19 June. South Korea was vulnerable: so, combined with the threat from the...