Foreign policy and diplomacy
What Foreign policy and diplomacy means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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Dominated by Somerset's costly 'Rough Wooing' of Scotland, provoking French intervention, in contrast with Northumberland's pragmatic Treaty of Boulogne ending wars with France and Scotland.
Unlike his cautious father, he embraced aggressive foreign policy, and his marriage to Catherine of Aragon restored the Anglo-Spanish alliance.
Topics that use Foreign policy and diplomacy
- 1C The Tudors: England, 1485–1603 – Henry VIII, 1509–1547 (AQA A-Level)
- 1C The Tudors: England, 1485–1603 – Instability and consolidation: 'the Mid-Tudor Crisis', 1547–1563 (A-level only) (AQA A-Level)
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