League of Nations
Date: December 1920
Woodrow Wilson demanded, the Versailles Treaty created the League of Nations - an organization of nations that would defend each other against aggressors.
President Harding realized the Senate would never approve U.S. membership in the League of Nations.
Proposed that America attempt a disarmament conference of its own with the other major naval powers: Britain and Japan.
Dawes Plan
Date: 1924
In 1923, Germany was unable to pay its reparations, and France and Belgium occupied a part of western Germany.
An American banker, Charles Dawes, came up with the Dawes Plan to fix the problem in 1924. Private American investors lent $200 million to Germany, while Germany's reparations payments were temporarily reduced to $250 million.
The same money thus circulated from private investors in the US to Germany, then to Britain and France, and finally back to the US Treasury.
Washington Naval Conference
Date: November 1921
Harding invited Britain and Japan, as well as Italy, France, and several smaller countries, to a conference in Washington, D.C.
Proposed that the US, Great Britain, and Japan each stop building new battleships and even scrap some of those they already had.
Four Power Treaty
Date: December 13, 1921
The US, Britain, and Japan worked out new arrangements for security in the Pacific.
The Anglo - Japanese Alliance was dissolved and replaced by the Four -Power Treaty.
The US, Britain, Japan, and France agreed to respect each other's territories and rights in the Pacific region and to submit any disputes to a "joint conference" of all four powers.
Kellogg - Briand Pact
Date: August 1928
An American professor sent a letter to the French foreign minister, Aristide Briand, suggesting a treaty to out - law war.
In April 1927, Briand wrote to the American Secretary of State, Frank Kellogg, with the news that France was ready to enter into a treaty with the US to outlaw war.
15 nations signed the Pact of Paris, promising not to use war as an instrument of policy.
Neutrality Acts
Date: 1935
The first Neutrality Act was passed for a limited period of six months. It prohibited Americans from sending "arms, ammunition, and implements of war" to foregin nations that the President proclaimed were at war.
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Date: 1919
Women's International League for Peace condemned the Versailles Treaty as too vengeful, but its headquarters to Geneva to be close to the League of Nations, which it admired.