Legacies of WWI

Promoting Peace

International organizations aimed
at preventing war

United States

Policy of Isolationism

withdrawal from world affairs in the 1920s and 1930s

Goal

avoid "entangling alliances"

League of Nations

World Court
(Permanent Ct of Int. Justice)

skeptical of international organizations

might cause the US to get involved in foreign conflics

US does not join

instead, the US uses diplomacy to promote peace policies

Disarmament

US gov't encouraged by
private interest groups

Women's movement leader:
Emily Greene Balch

Washington Conference

Charles Evan Hughes

Peace movements

reject war as a way to solve conflicts

proposes disarmament

Kellog-Briand Pact

Outlaws war excepts as
a self-defense

"as effective to keep down war as a
carpet would be to smother an earthquake"

War anddebts reparations

Europeans owed US for loans
to fight war and rebuild afterwards

Europe pushes Germany to pay
reparations

Germany borrows from Britain