It resulted in U.S. trading partners imposing retaliatory tariffs, causing a global trade war that was a major factor in worsening the Great Depression. Though the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act did not ...

P resident Donald Trump’s return to the White House has unleashed a flood of anxiety over the potential demise of what is ...

FDR was a Democrat and author of the new deal, the economic policy that helped America recover from the Great Depression ... generations that America first isolationism is a deep-seated and ...

the Great Depression was a time of extreme economic downturn, both domestically and internationally. The 1929 stock market crash, intensified isolationism, sky-high unemployment, and other ...

"After WWII, the United States did not want to repeat the mistakes of isolationism which had ... roots as the pro-tariff party prior to the Great Depression, Rauchway said.

This course examines a turbulent period in American history: the era of the great economic boom and cultural revolution of the 1920s, the Great Depression and the New Deal, and World War ll. This ...