If you'd like, I'd love to hear what it was influenced by, with particular attention for social and economic issues within the US, war debts/reparations, and political ideology. However, if you can give me any background knowledge, it would help very much.
2006-10-30 03:35:57 · 4 answers · asked by Ashley M 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
It was kind of unrealistic. In 1929 the Secretary of State, Henry L. Stimson, closed down the whole of the US diplomatic cryptography service (the "Black Chamber"), making the famous and rather stupid remark "Gentlemen do not read each other's mail". As a result, twelve years later the Allies very nearly lost the war in Europe, because they were telling their plans to US diplomats, who were reporting them back to the States in old insecure codes that the ungentlemanly Axis powers were able to intercept and read.
So yes, Stimson took the moral high ground, but it did nobody any good, and he should have been far more realistic.
2006-10-30 04:50:25 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Isolationism
2006-10-30 15:37:34 · answer #2 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The US policy was rebuilding a hapless Europe after WW I
2006-10-30 11:38:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Check this out
http://doe.sd.gov/octa/ddn4learning/themeunits/1920s/policy.htm
2006-10-30 11:37:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋