The Influence of US Policy on the Post-War Development of Western Germany 1945-50

Autor: Adamec, Matouš
Přispěvatelé: Kučera, Jaroslav, Nigrin, Tomáš
Jazyk: čeština
Rok vydání: 2015
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Popis: In this bachelor thesis the author focus on the influence of the United States of America on the post-war development of Germany between 1945 and 1950. Concretely in the time from the end of the World War II till the first months after establishing the state of Western Germany. The main goal of this thesis is to find, how the US-American foreign policy, that has started to change in this period, affected the resolving of the question of post-war Germany. The Author proceed from the stance of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who refused the engagement of the U.S. in the post-war economic development of Europe, and who stated, that the U.S. Army will leave the European territory until two years after the end of the WWII. But in the following years the U.S. started to leave this policy to set a new course, which was connected with evolvement of the United States in Europe and western parts of Germany. After the introduction, there will be introduced the American ideas of the post-war world structure, the theory of isolationism and Delano's the concept of "Four Policemen". The main part of the thesis will consist of the question of Germany between years 1945-7 at the Potsdam Conference and at the Council of Foreign Ministers. In the following part the development of the western parts of Germany tending to the...
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