Isolationist impulse of the 20?s No League of Nations Return to normalcy War debt fiasco Washington Conference 1921 Disarmament and Open Door in China Kellogg-Briand Pact War cannot be used as foreign policy Tydings-McDuffie Act in 1934 Independence for Philippines...in 1946 1933 - Pan-American Conference ?No nation has the right to intervene in the internal or external affairs? Marines withdrew from Nicaragua and Haiti in 1934 Platt amendment in Cuba ends Reversal of Wilsonian ideals FDR seen as a hero We step out, Japan starts to step in :L If you lower tariffs, we lower ours :) Designed to increase exports Radically changed foundations of trade?.we were protectionists since Civil War Cordell Hull set us on path to global economy 30?s was time of militarism