Word: chamberiain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first half of Kennedy's junior year was much like the two years that preceded it. By this time, however, Kennedy's father was a news-making ambassador to Great Britain, and Neville Chamberiain had appeased Hitler at Munich. Jack Kennedy decided to spend the second semester of his junior year in Europe and he received University permission...
...thesis is a long, complex analysis of the reasons for Britain's slow response to the rearmament of Germany. Its crux is the contention that men like Chamberiain and Baldwin do not carry the principal responsibility for Munich, but, rather, that Munich was caused by deeper forces inherent in democracy and capitalism. These forces Kennedy saw as apathy, concern with profits and security, pacifism, and fear of regimentation...