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- John F. Kennedy had long been interested in the topic of political courage, beginning with his senior thesis at Harvard. The thesis, later published as Why England Slept, was a study of the failure of British political leaders in the 1930s to oppose popular resistance to rearming, leaving the country ill-prepared for World War II.
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Why England Slept (1940) is the published version of a thesis written by John F. Kennedy in his senior year at Harvard College. Its title is an allusion to Winston Churchill's 1938 book While England Slept, which also examined the buildup of German power.
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- 1940
Mar 5, 2020 · In Why England Slept, the author discusses democracy versus dictatorship, the psychology of a nation's people, defense expenditures, disarmament and rearmament, appeasement, pacifism, the role of capitalism in England's unpreparedness, and the penalty of Munich--among other things.
The premise of his thesis was that no one politician was responsible for the unpreparedness of England, rather, it was its political system- a democracy that failed to come to grips early enough with the threat the Nazis posed.
America was still at peace when John F. Kennedy was a senior at Harvard writing WHY ENGLAND SLEPT. Within its pages, JFK outlined the varying factors that led to England's ill-preparedness in the years that led up to the Second World War.
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The thesis, later published as Why England Slept, was a study of the failure of British political leaders in the 1930s to oppose popular resistance to rearming, leaving the country ill-prepared for World War II.
This folder contains a typescript of John F. Kennedy's Why England Slept, the published version of his Harvard University senior thesis on the subject of British appeasement policy toward Nazi Germany.
Apr 4, 2016 · In 1940, while acting as secretary to his ambassador father in London, he wrote Why England Slept, an interpretation of England's failure to recognize the danger of the Nazi...
