Notes
- USA helps out with Dawes plan, 1924
- Kellogg-Briand Pact, 1928
- Remains out of World affairs and the League of Nations
- Republican attitude
- The Republican Presidents
- Republican Era "Return to Normalcy"
- U.S. unique with no interests threatened
- U.S. felt they were superior to a corrupt world
- U.S. impregnable to attack
- "devil" theory of war
Summary
America decided to stay out of World affairs; however, they still participated. USA wanted to work on themselves instead of participating in foreign countries. (Kellog-Briand Pact, Dawes Plan)
Quotes
"In the larger view the major forces of the depression now lie outside of the United States, and our recuperation has been retarded by the unwarranted degree of fear and apprehension created by these outside forces." - Herbert Hoover
Subjunctive Questions
Could of America avoided the Great Depression if they didn't follow isolationism?