Professional Documents
Culture Documents
• Tactics
– Attacked anyone deemed to be ‘un-American’
• Decline
– Leader of Indiana’s KKK convicted of murder
– Membership fell
Foreign Policy: The Fiction of Isolation
Disarmament and Peace
• Washington Conference (1921)
– Charles Evans started the talk about naval
disarmament
• Five Power Treaty
– The United States (5), Great Britain (5), Japan (3), France
(1.67), and Italy (1.67) agreed to the aforementioned ratios of
battleships.
• Four Power Treaty
– The United States, Great Britain, Japan, and France agreed to
respect each others territories
• Nine Power Treaty
– All nine nations agreed to respect the Open Door Policy
Kellog-Briand Pact
• Jane Addams awarded Nobel Peace Price
• Nations which signed the Kellog-Briand pact
gave up aggressiveness to achieve their ends
– Was ineffective because:
• Permitted defensive wars
• Failed to provide for an action to be taken against
violators
Business and Diplomacy
• Latin America
– Interests negotiated by Dwight Morrow in 1927
• Middle East
– Oil reserves
– Secretary of State Hughes got oil drilling rights
• Tariffs
– Fordney-McCumber Tariff
• Increased taxes on foreign imports by 25%
War Debts and reparations
• The US lent $10 billion to the allies
• The Treaty of Versailles demanded Germany
pay $30 billion to the Allies
• Dawes Plan
– Cycle of payments
– US loaned money to Germany, who paid it to the
Allies
– Britain and France paid the money from Germany
back to the Allies