Interwar Diplomacy America’s Isolating Internationalism

Harding’s Foreign Policy Knox-Porter Resolution, 1921 – Formally ended war with Central Powers Washington Naval Conference, – Disarmament – Tensions in East Asia – Some positive steps, but no long-term solutions

Coolidge’s Foreign Policy Immigration Act of 1924 Dawes Plan, 1924 Geneva Naval Conference of 1927 Kellogg-Briand Pact, 1928 Red Line Agreement, 1928

Hoover’s Foreign Policy Young Plan, London Naval Conference, 1930 Stimson Doctrine, Smoot-Hawley Tariff, 1933

Good Neighbor Policy, 1933 Latin America –Trade –Promised no military intervention Platt Amendment Abrogated

Recognition of Soviet Union Gentleman’s Agreement, 1933 –Roosevelt-Litvinov Conversations –Debt issues –Non-interference

Isolationism Belief that US should stay out of foreign wars and other problems –Rejection of Treaty of Versailles Leading proponents –Charles Lindbergh –Sen. William Borah (R- Idaho) –Sen. George Norris (R- Nebraska) –Rep. Hamilton Fish (R- New York)

Nye Committee, Special Commission on the Investigation of the Munitions Industry –Supported claims US entered WWI to protect commercial interests of arms industry Senator Gerald Nye (R-North Dakota),