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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.
Why England slept [by] John F. Kennedy
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.
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 alludes to Winston Churchill 's 1938 book Arms and the Covenant, published in the United States as While England Slept, which also examined the buildup of German power. [1]
- John F. Kennedy
- 1940
Oct 21, 2010 · Why England slept. by. Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963. Publication date. 1940. Topics. Disarmament. Publisher. New York, W. Funk, Inc.
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.
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 menace. As a...
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