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.

5. 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

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

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

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

15. 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.

17. 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

19. 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.