1920s Politics, Foreign Policy, and Economics

Unit 8, Lesson 3

Essential Idea

• In the 1920s, the government pursued pro-business domestic and foreign policies.

Republicans in Control

• Progressive Era ends

• Warren G. Harding

• Pro-business politics

Harding’s Presidency

• Debs pardoned

• The “Ohio Gang”

• Teapot Dome Scandal (1924)

• Harding dies • Scandals

Coolidge as President

• Calvin Coolidge

• Vetoes

• Election of 1924

1920s Economic Conditions

• Business prosperity

• Productivity

• Technology

• Government policy

1920s Economic Conditions • Farm problems• Labor problems• Coolidge’s Presidency

Foreign Policy TensionsForeign Policy Tensions

InterventioniInterventionismsm

DisarmamentDisarmament

• Collective Collective securitysecurity

• ““Wilsonianism”Wilsonianism”

• Business interestsBusiness interests

• IsolationismIsolationism

• NativistsNativists

• Anti-War Anti-War movementmovement

• Conservative Conservative RepublicansRepublicans

Foreign Policy• Isolationism• Washington Conference (1921)

– Five-Power Treaty– Four-Power Treaty– Nine-Power Treaty

• Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928)• Postwar Foreign Policy

Business and Diplomacy

• Latin America

• Middle East

• Raising tariffs

Addressing War Debts

• From debtor to creditor

• Europe’s economy

• Dawes Plan (1924)

Hoover Becomes President

• Election of 1928• Herbert Hoover• Results