Warren G Harding's Foreign Policy Analysis

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After the First World War, the devastation that was made on Europe and the multiple loss of American soldiers, America decided to change their foreign policy. During the 1920’s, America move in the path of “Return to normalcy” proposed by Warren G. Harding, in which reflected the three trend of his time: 1st renewed isolationism in reaction to WWI, 2nd reassurances of nativism, and 3rd turning away from the government activism. By stating this, Harding was against what Woodrow Wilson created, the League of Nations, meaning that isolationism would be the new path that America would follow for the next years. Following the new path meant that American would stay out of troubles and will focus on the protectionism of the economy (Document 1). …show more content…
In the Conference, they included the Five-Power Treaty which set a ration of warship tonnage and the Nine-Power Treaty, a multilateral agreement that marked internationalization of the U.S. Open Door Policy, both favored the U.S, but these limitations of weapons in each country and open policy were made to keep peace around the world (Document 2). In August 27, 1928, another treaty of peace were held in Paris known as the Kellogg-Briand Pact, the pact was an multilateral agreement attempting to eliminate the war as an instrument of national policy, with the help of the World Court, peace and international conflict were meant to be fixed by the use of word, not actions. Ultimately, in 1929, the Stock Market Crash made impossible to maintain international peace due to the attempt of every nation to gain money that were lost. Germany couldn’t stand the great demand creating flaws in the government that later on will create the Nazi party, with that, the raise of Adolf …show more content…
Roosevelt took office, isolationism start dismissing, the “Good Neighbor Policy” was a policy in which U.S. will approach most of the South American nations, this marked a departure of from traditional American interventionism. The new policy meant that U.S. will intervene and help his national neighbors, the first step that the U.S. took was training a National Guard in Latin America, as the U.S. sent more business to certain part of Mexico, Cuba and Haiti. The lack of political control in those countries coerced the U.S. to take action and created the guard, as many of the Latin American did not support the residency of Americans or “gringos” taking resources out of their country multiple banana wars between the civilians and National Guard started. Later on, the Secretary of State Cordell Hull insisted that world trade would not only help the United State to pull itself out of the down fall, but also would boost the chance of global peace. The Great Depression not only remained in the U.S. but to the whole world, after the World War II started between England and Germany, Hull believe that

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