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Item Reconciling Hitlerian Aggression to Taylorian Diplomatic Narrative(2024-04-18) Kearney, Arran; Dillon, TimIn seeking to morally defend the work of AJP Taylor one must demonstrate that properly assessing the diplomatic weight of Allied blunders, and the extent to which they helped bring about the Second World War, does not in turn inevitably lead a historian to forget or diminish Herr Hitler’s role in instigating the conflict. Instead it might enable a historian to better understand how both the Allies and Axis powers came to a place in September 1939 where they committed to a war over Poland that neither side seemed to anticipate or desire at that given moment. Using the the Munich Pact, the zenith of Allied appeasement, as a locus point, this paper will argue that (following that moment) Allied blunders and Hitlerian opportunism were made indistinguishable within the formation of a single diplomatic system. Examining this and the events that ensued shows Taylor’s judgements on Allied policy to hold a great deal of water, so long as they are modified to contain the fixed historic principle of Hitlerian Aggression. In studying the erroneous precedents Great Britain established under the Munich Agreement, together with the further blunders she committed from that point and the German invasion of Poland, she might be said to have, in a diplomatic sense, contributed at least as much as Hitler’s own aggression towards the joining of general war in Europe as it happened at that specific place and specific time.Item Time and Time Again: Exploring Standard Railway Time and its Effect on America(2024-04-19) Arendale, Samuel; Dillon, TimA 494 project on Standard Railway Time, a system created by the railroads in the 19th century that has a strong effect on America's growth.Item Who is Affecting Whom?: A Reevaluation of the Impact of Media Coverage During the Vietnam War(2022-12) Wagner, Megan; Dillon, TimThis thesis dives into the impact of television coverage of the Vietnam War on the domestic reaction within the United States. It is no coincidence that the first war to enter living rooms all over the country cultivated such an intense response. From showing the atrocities of war itself to unveiling the lack of disclosure from the government, the media controlled how the public viewed the war. For the first time in our history, war could no longer be romanticized. It is difficult to ignore the violence and the death when you can tune in to the reports at any time. Did the media have an impact on the antiwar movement? Was the television coverage of the war enough to poke the paranoia of the U.S. government? Who did the media coverage of the war affect the most?