International

Relations
Bryan Steven Lara Gómez
Daniel Mateo Rodríguez
 Contents
➢ Introduction ￫ Hong Kong
➢ The End of the Empire
Handover
￫ Post WWII
￫ Commonwealth
Decolonisation
➢ Transatlantic Relations
￫ Suez Crisis
￫ Britain and The USA
￫ Cyprus
￫ Britain and The EU
Independence
➢ Conclusions
￫ Cold War Period
➢ References
￫ Falklands War

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The End of The
Empire
 Post WWII Decolonisation
➢ 1923 and 1926 Imperial
Conferences.
➢ Growth of The United
States and Japan.
➢ Anti-colonial
movements.

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 Suez Crisis
➢ 1956: Egypt takes over the canal of Suez.
➢ The “Britain’s Waterloo” and “The American
Satellite”.
➢ Britain’s fall from grace.
➢ 1968: The beginning of the end for the far east
colonies.

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 Cyprus Independence
➢ 1960: Greek Cypriot
Nationalist Guerrilla fight
for their independence.
➢ 1964: Malta and Gozo are
given.
➢ 1974: Turkish Invasion.
➢ Britain keeps their military
bases

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 Cold War Period

➢ Only “Superpowers” were the USA and the Soviet

Union.

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 Falklands War
➢ 1982

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Hong Kong Handover

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 Commonwealth

➢ 53 member states.
➢ No legal obligations to
one another.

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Transatlantic
Relations
 Britain and the USA
➢ “Special relationship”.
➢ Low and high points.
➢ The “fifty-first state of the USA”.
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Britain and the EU

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 Conclusions
➢ Britain has tried to remain as an “independent
empire”.
➢ Despite all, Britain still remains as one of the
largest economies in the world.
➢ Military power.
➢ Public feeling about the relationship between
Britain and the USA is still ambiguous.

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 References
➢ O'Driscoll, Jim (1995) Britain: the country and its people: an introduction for learners
of English. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9783464100523
➢ Judd, D. (20th July 2011). BBC History Magazine. Retrieved from The decline and fall
of the British empire:
https://www.historyextra.com/period/modern/the-decline-and-fall-of-the-british-empi
re/
➢ World, N. (20th november 2014). How Powerful is the UK? Retrieved from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90FwdRPFGK8
➢ Gaskarth, Jamie (2013). British Foreign Policy: Crises, Conflicts and Future
Challenges. Cambridge, UK; Polity Press.
➢ Ward, Stuart. (2001). British culture and the end of empire. Manchester, UK ; New
York : New York : Manchester University Press.

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