Isolationism

• (Economically engaged) USA helps out with Dawes plan - 1924 
• (Non-Agression Pact) Kellogg-Braind Pact - 1928
• Remains out of the League of Nations
• Republican attitude
• Republican Presidents (Warren Hardin, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover)
• Still limited immigration
• high tariffs
• Does not guarantee any European agreements (USA 1st)
• 1933 USA formally recognizes Stalin's Russia

Prohibition

• 1920-1933
• Volstead Act
• Temperance Movements
• Rum Running
• In place until 1933 in the USA (Ends in the early 1920s in Canada)
• Created mobs and gangs (Al Capone)

Summary

After WWI, the US developed a sense of isolationism and no longer wished to participate in foreign affairs. Although they wished not to take part in these affairs, they were still involved through intervening with treaties like Kellog-Briand Pact.