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Historical development of cryptography during the World Wars era
Vaverka, Ondřej ; Ivánek, Jiří (advisor) ; Souček, Martin (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the description of cryptographic and cryptanalytic methods during the First and Second World Wars and related historical circumstances. The introduction briefly describes the development of cryptology prior to WWI. The first major chapter examines the application of cryptology during WWI. The next chapter concisely bridges the interwar period, and then focuses on WWII cryptology. The Ultra programme and the problem of Enigma machine is analyzed here in detail. The final chapter is a dedicated to the aftermath of WWII cryptographic efforts in the form of papers by Claude E. Shannon.
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Birth rate change during the First World War in Czech lands
Tvrdíková, Michaela ; Rychtaříková, Jitka (advisor) ; Fialová, Ludmila (referee)
The aim is to study changes in fertility in the years 1914-1918, the distribution of live births by age of mother and marriage duration, the seasonality of live births and the impact of these changes on subsequent developments. Further tries to estimate the war effects depicted on age structure through the censuses of 1921, 1930, 1950, 1980 and 2001, to evaluate losses due to missing births during the First World War and the number of unborn in the second generation, to describe the impact of these changes on the probability of death. The main benefit would be to estimate the unborn in the second generation, which had been originally estimated in 1960 by Ivan Kochanovskov and recalculated in this work to the fertile period of generations of women from 1915 to 1920, then the time period 1930-1969.
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Foreign Policy of Great Britain before the First World War (1901-1914)
Krupka, František ; Soukup, Jaromír (advisor) ; Hokovský, Radko (referee)
Bachelor thesis Zahraniční politika Velké Británie před první světovou válkou (1901-1914) analyzes the position of the British Empire in the international system in the years before the First World War. It focuses on the circumstances that forced Britain to withdraw from the isolation and re-focus its foreign policy on European affairs. Maps steps of British diplomacy, as depending on the internal political establishment, so depending on the concept of "Balance of Power" and tense development on the continent. The aim is to explain reason of the British intervention in the beginning of the World War I. and to prove that British foreign policy had a share on the escalation of conflict.
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Czech-German relationships in České Budějovice in 1914-1918 in light of german press in České Budějovice
ŠLEGLOVÁ, Pavlína
This bachelor thesis deals with the analysis of two leading German-language newspaper based in the territory of České Budějovice in the period of the World War I, namely Budweiser Zeitung and Budweiser Zeitung Kreisblatt. The main objective of the thesis was to find out what the press paid attention to during the war period, how it was affected by this event and how it wrote about the relationship of two major cultures - if you like - about Czechs and Germans. For the thesis preparation printed matters stored in the State Regional Archives in České Budějovice have been used. The Bachelor thesis is divided into three main chapters. The first chapter focuses on describing the situation in České Budějovice, its formation, referring to associations established in the territory within a specified period, including a clarification of the political situation. The second chapter deals with the selected German written press and the third chapter deals with the very newspaper production, whereas it is further divided into individual years and it separately describes the view of Budweiser Zeitung and the view of Budweiser Kreisblatt.
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The effect of the World War 1 on the labour union activity in the USA
Filip, Jan ; Tajovský, Ladislav (advisor) ; Szobi, Pavel (referee)
In my master thesis I focus on the effect of World War 1 on labour unions power in the United States of America. The goal is to answer these questions: What factors influenced position of labour unions at the beginning of the 20th century? How did the position of labour unions change during World War I? World War I was already a second experience with war economy in the history of the USA (remember American Civil War). For the first time, though, labour unions played important role in the American economy. I have decided to analyze the effect of World War I on position of labour unions because I consider it an important one. In Chapter one I will analyze the influence of war inflation on real wages of employees and on the ratio between wages of union workers and non-union workers. Chapter two is dedicated to labour conditions (social programs, safety, unemployment benefits) and to their modifications which took place because of World War I. Chapter three is about labour legislation development (regulation of hours and wages, yellow dog contracts, anti-trust and immigration legislation) and its adjustments during the war years. In the Conclusion I sum up all the evidence and evaluate the influence of the World War I on the labour unions and their members.
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The role and importance of W. Wilson in international relations
Janatková, Karolína ; Veselý, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Šauer, Jaroslav (referee)
The topic of this bachelor thesis is The role and importance of W. Wilson in international relations. The aim of this thesis is to analyse the role and importance of W. Wilson in international relations. The first chapter of this thesis focuses on the tendencies which had an impact on W. Wilson politics. These tendencies are idealism, pacifism and isolationism. The second chapter deals with the actors of foreign policy in the United States. The third chapter analyses the personal and political assumptions of W. Wilson. The last part focuses on foreign policy. This section deals with the situation before World War I, during World War I and the US response to the war Furthermore, this section deals with the expression of isolationism in the USA, U.S. entry into war and analysis of Wilson's Fourteen points. Last subsections are dedicated to the Paris Peace Conference, as well as formation of the League of Nations, and why the peace treaties with Germany and Austria were not ratified by the Senate.
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Financing of german economy in first world war and its influence on post-war economy
Skálová, Ivona ; Fabianková, Klára (advisor) ; Johnson, Zdenka (referee)
In my thesis I am dealing with German monetary policy from 1871 to the 1923. The two main chapters analyze German monetary and fiscal policies and their impact on post-war situation in the country. The third chapter refers to events in the Weimar Republic to the outbreak of hyperinflation. In this thesis I evaluate the regulations and their impact on the state and its economy. My aim is to confirm the hypothesis, in which I argue that in Germany were made decisions that have an impact on its economic collapse and radicalization of society between the world wars already during the pre-war and wartime. I found that during the years 1871-1918 were introduced measures that in the long run lead to a weakening of the financial stability of the country. Thesis contributes to provide a comprehensive view of monetary policy, which led to one of the biggest hyperinflation in the history.
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T. G. Masaryk and E. Benes. The friendship of two men in the Fisrt World War
BUCHTOVÁ, Martina
The aim of this thesis is analysis of the friendship of two men Tomas Garrigue Masaryk and Edvard Benes, who cooperated together during the First World War. They established foreign resistance movement and took Bohemia to the independence. The thesis is divided into three chapters. The first and the second chapters deal with the biographies of both politicians till year 1914. The third chapter describes correspondence between these two men, their age difference and the creation of foreing resistance movement. The last chapter is analyzing friendship and cooperation between T. G. Masaryk and E. Benes, their conversations, which was not only about their friendship, but they were about business matters too.
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