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U.S. and the Czechoslovak Crisis in 1938: Policy of Appeasement?
Jáč, Marek ; Calda, Miloš (advisor) ; Smetana, Vít (referee)
This Master thesis, U.S. and the Czechoslovak Crisis in 1938: Policy of Appeasement?, examines the policy of the United States in 1938 during the dispute between Czechoslovakia and Nazi Germany over the Sudeten German issue. This paper is a case study and it analyzes a diplomatic correspondence and public statements of key representatives of U.S. foreign policy in the period March to October 1938. The goal of the paper is to evaluate the U.S. policy towards the Czechoslovak crisis and to consider whether or not the U.S. policy could be labeled as a policy of appeasement. There are four chapters. The first chapter recapitulates U.S. foreign policy before 1938, briefly describes issues of appeasement and describes the Czechoslovak-U.S. relations before 1938. The second chapter deals with U.S. policy during the so-called May crisis. The third chapter focuses on U.S. policy during the Munich Conference. The fourth chapter analyzes attitudes and actions of U.S. representatives in the time of the Munich Conference.
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Former German Colonies and the Policy of Appeasement, 1933-1939
Krejčí, Pavel ; Horčička, Václav (advisor) ; Valkoun, Jaroslav (referee)
This thesis is focused on the policy of appeasement during the 1930's. It aims to describe one shade of a policy appeasement and its position in British and German foreign conceptions This thesis further deals with the rise and fall of the German colonial Empire, the British reaction to this process and also with the fate of the German in Africa colonies after the First World War. It is concentrated solely on German African colonies. The thesis works with hypothesis of the same methods and different aims of British and German attitudes. Whilst the British aim was the peace in the world, the Nazi aim was world war. Despite these differences, both sides adopted a similar approach to negotiation processes. The thesis shows the impractibility of British efforts and critically judges the British proposals to appease Germany on account of the third countries. Key words: appeasement, colony, revision, Africa, Great Britain, Germany, Empire
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Britain at Bay: The British Defence Policy between the World Wars
Svoboda, Ondřej ; Smetana, Vít (advisor) ; Váška, Jan (referee)
The purpose of the thesis "Britain at Bay: British Defence Policy between the World Wars" is to analyse the creation and application of defence policy of Great Britain and its Empire in the interwar period. The author tries to assess and interpret actions of individual government actors as well as actors outside the government. He argues that defence policy promoted by politicians, soldiers, and bureaucrats, was not always a mere result of rational reasoning. There were often cases of defending particular interests, decision-making influenced by emotions and misleading perception of the external world. One of the strongest limitations was Britain's economic frailty which influenced the British grand strategy in eminent and key way during the examined period. It is well demonstrated on the shift from almost unilateral disarmament after the First World War to the immense armament just a few months before the Second World War. Great emphasis is also put on individual armed branches which bore the main burden of Britain's and Imperial security. Therefore, it was important to pursue the internal development of the Army, Air Force and the Navy and their operational plans in which they had to deal with gradual emergence of three enemy powers at three different parts of the world. With regard to the...
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The Causes of the Munich Agreement in 1938
VOSÁHLO, Jan
Bachelor thesis The Causes of the Munich Agreement in 1938 deals with the historical events that has led to the Munich Agreement which has been a major incident before the Second World War. The aim of this thesis is to clarify these causes of the Munich Agreement. The causes will be analyzed from four main point of views, the international, domestic, military and moral. Thesis might be used in an educational field to fully understand the circumstances of this event.
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Grounds of appeasement policy in Great Britain between wars
Langmajer, Jakub ; Soběhart, Radek (advisor) ; Stellner, František (referee)
In my bachelor work I will try to analyze in light of political, military and economical point of view the grounds of appeasement policy genesis during interwar period in Britain. I used hypothesis of supremacy of domestic policy, which influenced steps following this policy supporters in the interwar period as a measure for final classification of this policy of appeasement. These items arouse a serious discussion even in present-day period. Were the supporters of "apeasement" only cowards, who were not able to defy the growing totalitarian regime danger in the world or were they politicians of vision, who considered future battle as inevitable and therefore they tried to win as much time as possible for rearmament and war preparation.
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The contribution to the study of the economic causes of British appeasement in the 1930s
Rejnartová, Sylvia ; Kovář, Martin (advisor) ; Stellner, František (referee)
The main aim of the bachelor thesis will be particularly the analysis of the economic causes which led the Great Britain in the 1930s to the choice of the policy of appeasement (reconciliation of the aggressive European powers, primarily the Nazi German). For the reasons above firstly it goes about the analysis of the economic and then also of the political and social relations between the Great Britain and Germany. At the earliest the thesis analyse the historical background (mainly the impacts of the Great depression), which had influenced the policy of the Great Britain and her economic bindings towards Germany. Further will be analysed the changes of the policy of appeasement in the second half of the 1930s, on the eve of the second Word War and in the period when Britain had to abandon this policy. Simultaneously the thesis will attempt to answer the question whether the Great Britain had the oportunity to choose an alternative policy considering the given internal and extrnal policy factors which would face up the Nazi German more emphatically.
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Munich agreement and the Versailles system of international relations
Miňovská, Veronika ; Veselý, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Šauer, Jaroslav (referee)
The thesis deals with the Versailles arrangement of international relations since its establishment at the Paris Peace Conference, through its changes in 20s and 30s, until its final disappearance. I try to argue, in the thesis, that the system's setting served Hitler as a powerful political weapon in negotiations with the Western powers. I seek for deeper clarification of causes leading to the signature of the Munich Agreement and I am also concerned with the policy of appeasement and the system of collective security which failed several times in 30s. Additionally, the thesis has ambition to shed some light on the Sudeten problem, that had been misused in favour of Hitler due to a well-targetted imperial propaganda of uprecedented proportions. Finally, a part of the paper is also devoted to the rise of Nazism in Germany, the circumstances under which it flourished and its later consequences.
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Hospodářské a politické příčiny politiky appeasementu Velké Británie
Kalvoda, Tomáš ; Ševčík, Miroslav (advisor) ; Soukup, Jaromír (referee)
Práce se zabývá politickými a hospodářskými příčinami, které vedly Velkou Británii k provádění či v pokračování politiky appeasemnetu, tj. politiky, která podle mnohých vedla pouze k posílení nacistického Německa a tím i k vypuknutí druhé světové války. Dá se ale říci, že Velká Británie neměla příliš jiných možností postupovat jinak, než jak postupovala. Práce je brána z pohledu Velké Británie a její část se zabývá i vznikem diktatur v Německu a v Itálii.
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