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Legacies of WWI - Coggle Diagram
Legacies of WWI
United States
Policy of Isolationism
withdrawal from world affairs in the 1920s and 1930s
Goal
avoid
"entangling alliances"
skeptical of international organizations
might cause the US to get involved in foreign conflics
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
proposes disarmament
Peace movements
reject war as a way to solve conflicts
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"
Promoting Peace
International organizations aimed
at preventing war
League of Nations
World Court
(Permanent Ct of Int. Justice)
US does not join
War anddebts reparations
Europeans owed US for loans
to fight war and rebuild afterwards
Europe pushes Germany to pay
reparations
Germany borrows from Britain