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Try Analyzing The Change Of The Strength Of British Navy Between The Wars

Posted on:2006-10-07Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L X BaiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360152995342Subject:World History
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The thesis has mainly probed into the change of the strength of British navy between World War I and World War II, and has assessed overall state of British navy in this period, has analyzed the concrete reason why its strength changes, and its influence toward Britain and the world.The British navy has had a brilliant history, was an important pillar of supporting the British Empire too. After World War I, however, because of economic depression for a long time and financial difficulty, the development of British navy felled into dire straits. In the face of the fast emergence of such country's navies as U.S. and Japan etc. Britain did its utmost, having used various kinds of political, military and diplomatic means, to try to maintain the status of the powerful country of the first navy of the world.Because of various kinds of factors, Britain has kept the level of the powerful country of world navy with an effort between the Wars, but the historical trend of its relative decline has been irredeemable already. Besides this basic reason of relative decline of Britain's national power and the loss of the technological superiority, causes of this decline had some concrete reasons of era. These included that after the World War I, depressing Britain's economy for a long time and difficult finance, the pinning down of pacifism movement and the influence of the collective security idea, conservative and rigid military thinking and the adjustment of national defense emphasis etc...No matter the relative decline of the strength of British navy has a long-term but far-reaching impact on capital of the world to Britain. As to Britain, it has weakened the prestige of Britain, was an important potential factor, causing the British Empire to disintegrate, it made Britain suffer serious difficulty in initial stage in World War II. In the long term, it has also weakened Britain's ability of practicing usury to world and plundering from other countries. As to world, the relative decline of British navy has caused the greatest construction of world navy pattern again since several centuries.
Keywords/Search Tags:Between the Wars, British navy
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