Isolationism
- USA helps out with Dawes plan in 1924
- Kellogg-Briand pact 1928
- Remains out of world affairs and the league of Nations
- Republican attitude
- The republican presidents from 1921-1933 included Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover.
- Limited immigration, especially from Asia
- High tariffs
- 1933 USA formally recognizes Stalin's Russia
“It's all very well for us to sit here in the west with our high incomes and cushy lives, and say it's immoral to violate the sovereignty of another state. But if the effect of that is to bring people in that country economic and political freedom, to raise their standard of living, to increase their life expectancy, then don't rule it out.”
― Niall Ferguson
― Niall Ferguson