VPI0111 Lecture Notes - Washington Naval Conference, W. E. B. Du Bois, Dawes Plan
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The government could have stepped in to help prevent the great depression, by making taxes more, or by making banks higher their interest rate. Import taxes: protecting the economy: the national origins quota act has to do with immigrants, government let in the wealthiest immigrants to make the economy better. The kellogg briand pact: is a 1928 international agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve "disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them". The washington naval conference, was a disarmament conference called by the united states and held in washington, dc from november 12, 1921 to february 6, 1922. It was conducted outside the auspices of the league of nations. The young plan was a program for settling germany"s world war i reparations written in august 1929 and formally adopted in 1930.