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The Roaring 20s:The Policies of Prosperity

The Roaring 20s:The Policies of Prosperity. Ch 8.3. Tuesday, March 27, 2012. Daily goal: Understand what government policies helped grow the 1920s economy and how foreign policy changed. The Mellon Program.

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The Roaring 20s:The Policies of Prosperity

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  1. The Roaring 20s:The Policies of Prosperity Ch 8.3

  2. Tuesday, March 27, 2012 • Daily goal: • Understand what government policies helped grow the 1920s economy and how foreign policy changed.

  3. The Mellon Program • Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon thought his plan would keep the economy growing. • The plan: • Lower Taxes • Balanced federal budget • Lower gov’t debt

  4. Hoover’s Cooperative Individualism • Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover encouraged (not forced) businesses to work together to help grow the economy.

  5. A World Power • After WWI America now lent more money that it borrowed. • It was also the largest economy in the World.

  6. Isolationism • Pres. Harding promised that America would avoid future cooperation with Europe. • The US refused to join the League of Nations after WWI.

  7. Dawes Plan • The Dawes plan kept the European economies strong enough to keep buying American products. • Lent Europeans enough money to repay American banks for WWI loans.

  8. The Washington Naval Conference • The US called a conference of the world’s military powers and gets them to agree to stop expanding their navies. • Agreements signed: • 4-power naval agreement • 5-power naval agreement • 9-power naval agreement

  9. The end of War? • Americans hoped they could rid of war by getting 62 nations to sign the Kellogg-Briand Pact in which they all promised to never go to war again.

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