Foreign Developments: Isolationism in the 1920s and evidence against it

Question 1

Which foreign policy idea was re-implemented after WWI?

Answer 1

Isolationism

Question 2

What was Warren Harding’s campaign message in the 1920 election?

Answer 2

A return to normalcy

Question 3

What did geographical isolationism say?

Answer 3

America could stay isolationist because they were between 2 large oceans

Question 4

Which Doctrine did the USA want to continue enforcing?

Answer 4

The Monroe Doctrine

Question 5

Why did the USA want to reduce the Japanese navy in the 1920s?

Answer 5

They posed a threat to the USA

Question 6

Which part of the world were the USA interested in keeping the Monroe Doctrine in?

Answer 6

Latin America

Question 7

What year was the Dawes Plan created?

Answer 7

1924

Question 8

What did the Dawes Plan do?

Answer 8

It reduced German WWI reparations

Question 9

How many dollars a year was the German debt reduced by?

Answer 9

Reduced by $250 million a year

Question 10

Which plan extended the Dawes Plan? What year was it made?

Answer 10

The Young Plan, made in 1929

Question 11

What did the Young Plan bring the reparation payments for Germany down to? Over how many years would this be paid?

Answer 11

$25 billion, paid over 60 years

Question 12

What conference did Harding call in 1921?

Answer 12

Naval Conference

Question 13

What was the aim of the 1921 Naval Conference?

Answer 13

To reduce the size of the Japanese military

Question 14

What did the Five-Power Treaty made in the Naval Conference do?

Answer 14

It put limits on battleship construction

Question 15

Name 2 countries that would commit to the Five-Power Treaty

Answer 15

Japan, USA

Question 16

Which treaty made in the 1921 Naval Conference continued the Open Door policy?

Answer 16

Nine-Power Treaty

Question 17

Who was the Secretary of State during the 1920s?

Answer 17

Charles Evans Hughes

Question 18

What reason was there for an emphasis on disarmament in the 1920s?

Answer 18

Charles Evans Hughes supported disarmament

Question 19

What did Coolidge try to do with naval military power in 1927?

Answer 19

He tried to reduce it further

Question 20

What convention did Coolidge try to reduce naval power further in? What year?

Answer 20

Geneva Convention, 1927.

Question 21

What year was the Kellog-Briand Pact made?

Answer 21

1928

Question 22

How many nations signed the 1928 Kellog-Briand Pact?

Answer 22

15

Question 23

What did the 1928 Kellog-Briand Pact say?

Answer 23

Countries should only fight wars if in self-defence

Question 24

What was the situation with sanctions if nations went against the Kellog-Briand Pact?

Answer 24

There were no sanctions

Question 25

What year did Japan invade Manchuria?

Answer 25

1931

Question 26

What did the USA ensure with themselves in the Kellog-Briand Pact?

Answer 26

The USA would not get involved with conflicts in other nations under the pact

Question 27

How did President Hoover respond to the invasion of Manhcuria in relation to the 1928 Kellog-Briand Pact?

Answer 27

He did not acknowledge it

Question 28

How much money was invested in Latin America in 1924 and 1929?

Answer 28

$1.5 billion in 1924, $3 billion in 1929.

Question 29

What did General Electric do in Latin America? What year?

Answer 29

They made their own company there in 1923

Question 30

How many Latin American countries did General Electric have a monopoly in?

Answer 30

8 Latin American companies

Question 31

What plans were made to give Latin American nations loans?

Answer 31

The Kemmerer Plans

Question 32

What did the US ensure with the Kemmerer Plan loans?

Answer 32

Ensured that the money would be used in a corrupt way

Question 33

What decade were the Kemmerer Plans made in?

Answer 33

1920s

Question 34

How much money did the USA give to Colombia in compensation for Panama?

Answer 34

$25 million

Question 35

What year had Panama gained independence?

Answer 35

1903

Question 36

What did Coolidge do with Nicaragua in 1925?

Answer 36

Withdrew troops from there

Question 37

When had USA troops been put in Nicaragua?

Answer 37

1909

Question 38

What year did Coolidge have to put troops back into Nicaragua?

Answer 38

1926

Question 39

How many times more troops did Coolidge have to send to Nicaragua in 1926 than those sent in 1909?

Answer 39

Twice as many troops sent

Question 40

By what year had the USA brought an end to the Nicaraguan civil war?

Answer 40

1928