№1-2020-02
Buranok S. O., Tulusakova M. I.
THE MUNICH CRISIS OF 1938 ON THE PAGES OF THE AMERICAN PRESS
Based on US press the article presents an analysis of how U.S. media perceived and responded to the rising threat from the Nazi Germany in 1938. The materials of the American press of 1938 dedicated to the search for the most efficient optimal strategy of building relations with both Germany and with USSR show, among other things, a steady interest of American mass media towards negative and positive experience of European policy. When analyzing the American press from that position it is very important to identify specific content of each of the «war topics», the general mood of the editors and reporters with respect to the perspectives of the war in 1938. The U.S. press created during the period of Munich in 1938, argued that Germany came up with understandable and justified demands for the protection of the rights of Germans in Czechoslovakia, but Poland and the Soviet Union decided to take advantage of this, provoking, in their interests, a full-scale war in Europe. Moreover, US newspapers often wrote in September 1938 that Stalin used Hitler’s policies to try to crush «world imperialism».
Keywords: US press, public opinion, Munich agreement, US foreign policy, German foreign policy.
Samara State University of Social Sciences and Education (Russia)
