Isolationist Foreign Policy During the Interwar Years (1918-1939)

Beginning with the 1st president of the United States, George Washington, isolationism has been involved with the foreign policy decisions. From the 1st American Neutrality Act in 1794 to the Embargo Act in 1807 to the Quota Act of 1921. Foreign policy isolationism has effected the world greatly! Our decision to establish the Emergency Quota Act and the Immigration Act of 1924 effected those that wanted to be apart of the american dream. In the 1920s, most Japanese, Asians, Chinese, and Southern Europeans were restricted from coming into the country. Also, the citizens of the country itself were impacted from foreign policies, even though they weren't apart of the "targets". The debt created by European "war loans" helped dig us into the disastrous 1929 stock market crash. Although we had presidents such as Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt, not even their proposals, the "fourteen points" and "New Deal" could solve these problems completely.