Dawes Plan, 1924
- USA lends money to Germany which is spent building up the German economy
- Germany uses increased tax revenues to pay reparations to france
- France pays back war loans to the USA and imports US goods to help rebuild France
- Not very isolationist
The Young Plan, 1929
- Owen D. Young (suggests it to the government, France agrees) , American banner (sees that Germany will every be able to pay it off)
- Recommendation that German Reparations should be reduced by 3/4 (75%)
- Annual payments to be made on a scaled model (75 years)
- Germans hate it (Hitler, he didn't want to pay it anymore. He hated that he had to pay at all, thought the war wasn't their fault)
Summary
The Dawes Plan and the Young Plan were made so that the US helped out these two countries so that in the long run the US would benefit. This plan was not very isolationist at all.