France protested because they thought that having German influence on both sides would be too much if conflict would have occured. William the King of Prussia withdrew Leopold but the French still did not let this situation rest at hand. The French influence group led by Empress Eugénie wanted war with Prussia. So they sent a French ambassador to seek William I and ask him to sign papers
The US administration concluded that the French were invaluable allies against Communism in both Indochina and Europe, and therefore deserving of American assistance. The French threatened to be unhelpful about the European defense arrangements and their war against Communism if Eisenhower did not provide more aid. While many viewed the war as America's way against Communism, some historians believed that further US involvement was due to Eisenhower's personal interest. In the presidential election campaign Eisenhower had rejected the Democratic policy of containment of Communism and advocated the liberation of communist states. He realised this was a fatal mistake because not only has he yet to liberate a communist state, the Red Scare was high on the rise and Senator Macarthy was throwing accusations within the
For example Czechoslovakia, a country which could have put up a strong resistance to a German invasion was abandoned by France and Britain. As a result, this proved that if there are actions made by the western side to stop Hitler. It might be able to avoid the war as Hitler would not become so aggressive. Thus, it is not justified as this lead to Hitler thinking that no one can stop him. In conclusion, the policy of appeasement was a justified action even though there were many consequences from it.
However, Wolsey wasn’t able to maintain his power and a number of factors influenced Henry’s decision to strip Wolsey of his powers in 1529. These factors included Wolsey’s failure to achieve The King’s Great Matter, opposition from The Boleyn Faction and his failure in foreign and domestic policy. Although all of these factors contributed to Wolsey’s downfall, I believe his failure to grant Henry with a divorce was the most important factor. Historians often refer to this as the nail in Wolsey’s coffin. Henry approached government about a divorce as he claimed that his marriage to Catherine of Aragon was a sin as the Leviticus states that marrying your brother’s wife will be punished by remaining childless.
He believed he had the support of the English Parliament. Mark Kishlansky states that where previous requests for money and army were pressing, as in the 1620’s, the situation after the First Bishops War was one of “genuine emergency,” and parliament knew this. Parliament was arguing that an invasion of England was not as important as attacks on the freedom of its citizens (Kishlansky, 1997: 140). Kishlansky has highlighted how important the events of the First Bishops War was, Charles was backed into a corner by parliament due to the events in Scotland. David Smith says that it was clear that some members of both houses sympathised with the covenanters and wished to defeat the supply of money in order to encourage a resistance, (Smith, 1998: p111) highlighting that there was a
Bismarck’s main reasoning for following Kulturkampf was to keep hold of his influence, which he felt was threatened by the Centre Party, and he felt that K would prevent any uprising. However it is the result of K that made it unsuccessful for Bismarck because the Anti-Catholic Stance endangered good foreign relations with Austria and spiritually the Catholic Church thrived, and there was a political increase in the representation of the Centre Party in the Reichstag- 1871: 58 seats 1890: 106 seats. This meant that Bismarck lost support, the National Liberal‘s seats in the Reichstag decreased from 125 se, whilst
This Alliance consisted of Holland, England, Brandenburg, Portugal, Savoy, and the Holy Roman Empire. At the time England did not want another War following the events of 1698 and as for France, Louis believed that another major conflict would be unnecessary. After Charles II’s death the European powers found themselves in a provocative and ambiguous situation that was turned on its head following Leopold’s declaration of War following the acceptance of the throne by Louis’ grandson in 1700. This ascension to the throne had
Parliament were initially enthusiastic, saying to James “take your sword in your hand… direct the point of your sword at Spain”. However, due to James’ continued good relations with Spain, Parliament were reluctant to grant James the huge sums of money necessary for war, and hence voted him a mere subsidy of roughly £140,000 which was woefully inadequate for the purpose that it was intended. However Parliament had every right to be suspicious, as James had placed 2500 troops on the continent, but actually forbidden them to fight and was continuing his negotiations with Spain. James felt that the Spanish Match should be used as a tool to restore Frederick to the Palatinate, and this would allow him to avoid military intervention. The King, however, neglected to mention this to his Parliament who became understandably confused and wary due to the carelessness of James and his lack of communication.
Britain and France showed no resistance due to the appeasement policy followed by the countries’ governments. Britain had several reasons for not opposing the remilitarization such as it believed the treaty had been harsh on Germany. It also believed that the people would not support another war and it was not prepared for an offensive. Britain worried that if its attention was diverted to another war, it would not be able to control its widespread empire and thus lose colonies. France did not support the remilitarization but could not react as, it could not predict the strength of the German army and it knew that nor Britain nor USA would go to war.
In addition to that, he wanted to scare France; without causing a war. Due to the fact that the Rhineland was on the border of France, they would feel threatened by Germany. This would be able to give him more confidence if France were to attack him. He would ready to take them with this army on the Rhineland, preventing them to enter Germany. Furthermore, he felt that the Rhineland was part of his territory, as it was originally part of Germany.