Military intervention
What Military intervention means in History GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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Sending military assistance to the Dutch Protestant rebels, as Elizabeth did under the Treaty of Nonsuch, effectively declaring war on Spain.
Kornilov ordered troops to march on Petrograd, ostensibly to restore order and crush the Soviet.
Topics that use Military intervention
- Option 30: Key topic 1: The revolutions of 1917 - 3 The Provisional Government (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
- Option B4: Key topic 2: Challenges to Elizabeth at home and abroad, 1569–88 - 3 Outbreak of war with Spain, 1585–88 (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Anglo-Spanish relations
- Causes of war
- Dual Control
- Dual Power
- Elizabethan foreign policy
- Governor-General
- June Offensive
- Kerensky
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