...MR 1/499 European War The alliance against Napoleon Bonaparte and France was not a united front. Austria and Russia fought to safeguard their territory; Britain fought to protect her Naval...
...Santiago, Christopher R Nugent. Parish concluded the signing of a Treaty of Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation with Argentina on 2 February 1825. These resulted in a promotion to Charge d’Affaires,...
...of State Byrnes: ‘It is quite clear that the United States do not at the present time desire Russian participation in the war against Japan.’3 Why were they dropped on...
...explain Lewis' appointment as sub Librarian in the Foreign Office in 1801, aged just 13. By 1810 he had been promoted to Librarian and Keeper of the Papers. In 1822...
...of the United States and Britain. Their aim, he believed, was to meet the Red Army as far West as possible, occupying territory in the agreed post-war Soviet zone. British...
...entered the war in October 1950. The South Korean regime, led by Syngman Rhee, was supported by the United States. The DPRK invasion precipitated a conflict that lasted until 1953...
...fuel and shelter. The new ‘world organisation’, the United Nations, was planned but not up and running. Peacemaking machinery, including the new Council of Foreign Ministers, soon exposed dangerous cracks...
...board HMS Prince of Wales [Licence: Creative Commons Attribution Wikimedia] ‘The President of the United States of America and the Prime Minister, Mr. Churchill, representing His Majesty’s Government in the...
...the British Empire in Asia came under increasing pressure from its erstwhile allies the United States and Japan. In June 1921, the British Admiralty responded by planning a new naval...
...succumb to communist expansion, and that only the United States could prevent the extension of Soviet domination to Europe, the Middle East and Asia Bankruptcy and bad weather In the...