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The Peace Corps and Its Role in the Cold War
Válková, Aneta ; Raška, Francis (advisor) ; Anděl, Petr (referee)
This bachelor thesis is focused on the activity of the Peace Corps in Africa during the presidency of John Fitzgerald Kennedy and under the conduct of its first director Robert Sargent Shriver. The thesis researches and evaluates the process of the Peace Corps establishment, its activities and its role within this period of time. The question whether the Peace Corps was a purely voluntary organisation or whether it fulfilled any political goal in the concept of the Kennedy's foreign policy is the main research question to which the thesis tries to find an answer. Firstly, the thesis deals with the Peace Corps establishment and the problems related to it. Furthermore, the thesis deals with the structure of the Peace Corps and its purpose as well as the profile, the experiences and the motivation of its volunteers to join the Peace Corps. It also covers the training programs of future volunteers. Last but not least, the thesis will focus on the activities of the American volunteers in particular African countries that are Somalia, Tanganyika and Nigeria. The closing chapter is concerned with the John F. Kennedy's foreign policy and the Peace Corps' role in its conduct on the African continent in the Cold War context. There is shortly discussed the reaction on the Corps' activities within the...
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Comparison of Selected Impacts of New Frontier and Great Society Programs in 1960s
Kojan, Christian ; Johnson, Zdenka (advisor) ; Fabianková, Klára (referee)
This thesis deals with New Frontier and Great Society programs and their impact on social policy of the United States in the 1960s. The main goal of the thesis is to compare impact of both programs on selected indicators of standard of living with primary focus on the poverty rate. Thesis describes antipoverty measures of both programs and analyzes their impact on the standard of living. Hypothesis stating that the Great Society was more successful than New Frontier at reducing the poverty rate could not be proven true because of the immense influence of strong economic growth in the 1960s. Thesis suggests that the biggest success of both programs was the positive impact of the Great Society on education.
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John F. Kennedy and Crisis in Caribbean
Smrčinová, Tereza ; Veselý, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Matějka, Zdeněk (referee)
This diploma thesis analyzes the role of John F. Kennedy in Cuban missile crisis in October 1962. It was nuclear weapons owned both by Soviet Union and by the US that made the escalating crisis in Caribbean so extraordinarily dangerous. The aim of my diploma thesis is to show if the American President made decisions rationally, if he considered all the possible consequences and wished to maintain the American prestige of the superpower. I will also analyze the way he decided to solve the crisis that turned out to be the most dangerous crisis after the end of World War II.
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