Peace-making And To Take Over Hegemony "test" - A Review Of The 1937-38 U.s. Law Of Blessing - Wells Scheme

In the late 1930s, responding to the increasing threats from Nazi Germany, Summer Welles, Undersecretary of State, successively proposed elles Plan twice. Actually, the European peacekeeping plan was originated in 1935 from the outline of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was the real maker of the plan, for it washim who made the final decision .Therefore, more exactly, the plan should be named oosevelt-Welles Plan The thesis consists of three parts. The first part details the complicated evolution procedure of the plan, from its origination, to the negative feedback from other related countries, to the revise of the plan and the second attempt, and to its final frustration. Part Two gives a comprehensive introduction of the background and international politics and U.S. domestic factors of the plan's origination, and further analyzes its nature and intention. Essentially, it was a foresighted package of Roosevelt to tackle the strained European crisis and domestic issues. Seemed as an unattached peacekeeping plan, it was really an important part of Roosevelt's Germany policy. On the other hand, it reflected America's long-term interests and Roosevelt's vision of the future global political map and his ambition to dominate the world. The third part of the paper focuses on the multiple factors that led to the failure of the plan. The factors, such as the non-cooperation of U.K. and France, objection of Germany, Italy and Japan, and defects of the plan itself, resulted in its inevitable unsuccessful fate. With the precondition of Germany's complying with the basic principles which should be observed in international relations, Welles's never-materialized proposal differs from Prime Minister Chamberlain's appeasement, which is widely known as eeking peace at any price However, the plan did not oppose appeasement explicitly and inadvertently reinforced the appeasers. Under the pressure of the domestic politics and isolationism trend, President Roosevelt acted excessively cautiously, which made Chamberlain and other leaders of U.K and France rely on the appeasement policy much more than before and appeased the fascist invaders.