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US foreign policy - treaties
the dawes plan
result of negotiations between Germany and the US
allowed for reduced reparations payment as well as a loan from the US to improve German infrastrucutre
initially a success in dealing with massive inflation and large scale unemployment in Germany that had been caused by the treaty of Versailles
the young plan
based on a report taken by American banker Owen D Young
suggested that the total amount of reparations should be reduced and that Germany should make paynents on a sliding scale up to 1988
severly criticised in Germany by right wing politicians such as Hitler
unemployment continued to grow, all reparations suspended in 1931 and canceled
Kellogg-Briand Pact
signed by 15 nations in 1928 to prevent a recurrence of the carnage of World War I
rencounced war was a method of settling disputes between France and the US and drawing the US into its defensive system against Germany
support come from both ends of the US political spectrum
Kellogg was fearful that the threaty would drag the US into an European war on the side of France so expanded the treaty to a complete renouncing of warx
ended up being toothless
the Johnson Act of 1934 (or foreign securities act)
prohibited nations from marketing their bond issues in the US, forbade loans to nations in default on their debts
1937 Quarantine Speech
intensified America's isolationist mood and triggered protests by non interventionists
response to agressive actions by Italy and Japan and the use of economic pressure to counteract this behaviour
a policy of reacting forcefully to external threats but without resorting to war
the Neutrality acts
series of laws passed in the 1930s in response to growing turmoil in Europe and Asia
isolationist motiviations
attitude towards them as negative, stopped the US from aiding Britian against Nazi Germany
Neutrality Act of 1935
prohibited American citizens from selling arms to belligerents in international war
Neutrality Act of 1936
sought to close the loopholes in the 1935 act (not setting limits on trading raw materials) by prohibiting trade in raw materials as well as loans or credits
Lend lease
permitted the president of the US to 'sell, transfer title to, exchange, lease, lend or otherwise dispose of to any government any defence article'
could only be done if the defence of this government meant the defence of the US
used for Roosevelt to approve 1 billion in lend lease to aid Britian