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Britain and the Revolutions in Eastern Europe in 1989

Dr Richard Smith, 16 December 2019 - Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians

Thirty years on from the fall of the Iron Curtain, we look at how British diplomats responded to the revolutions unfolding around them.

Diplomatic countdown to war

Tara Finn, 3 September 2019 - Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, Second World War

With a flurry of diplomatic activity in the first 3 days of September 1939, was the Second World War inevitable?

What’s the context? 31 March 1939: the British guarantee to Poland

Gill Bennett, 28 March 2019 - Foreign Office Historians, Second World War

On 31 March 1939 Neville Chamberlain committed Britain to defending Polish independence. After years of trying to preserve peace and buy time for rearmament, he recognised that international developments and domestic opinion meant this guarantee was necessary, though it was to mean war with Germany 6 months later.

Britain and the Revolutions in Eastern Europe in 1989

Diplomatic countdown to war

What’s the context? 31 March 1939: the British guarantee to Poland

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