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President Calvin Coolidge.

Foreign policy

Calvin Coolidge, the 30th president of the United States, was by many accounts not very well versed in the realm of world affairs, nor was he all that interested in world affairs to begin with. President Coolidge's focus was directed mainly at American business and "Maintaining the Status Quo." Calvin Coolidge himself was Not an Isolationist nor could he less be described as a follower of Wilsonian Internationalism. Coolidge was not in favour of the United States joining the League of Nations However, he was a proponent of the United States joining the World Court a permanent international court of justice set up to replace the current and ineffective Hague Tribunal. President Coolidge's primary objective was to support American business interests and that would also involve trade over land and sea with the rest of the world. Supporting American business would also see Calvin Coolidge make deals with Mexico, recognising the country's new government as well as authorising the St. Lawrence seaway in Canada, a system of locks and canals that would provide large vessels passage into the Great Lakes. He would as well have a series of deals with the the various Latin American countries. He would withdraw the Marines Stationed in Nicaragua in 1925, Although they would return in 1926. Calvin Coolidge would personally go to Havana, Cuba to defuse the situation between various Latin American leaders that are disgruntled with the United States' policies in the region and the United States. Coolidge would send his friend and banker, Dwight Marrow, with the objective to "keep us out of war with mexico." Marrow did that and more, he avoided war and actually reduced tensions between the two countries to there lowest point in decades.

In the respect of the countries in Europe, and the financial devastation that befell the German economy after the first world war due to the reparations it was forced to pay, President Coolidge authorised the Dawes Plan, a financial plan made up by Charles Dawes, this plan was to grant Germany huge loans in the hope that it would alleviate the economic disaster. This plan was initially very successful at stimulating the German economy. There was an interest after the war to follow up on disarmament. Calvin Coolidge would seek to follow up on the naval disarmament that was agreed upon in the Washington Naval Conference. Coolidge would sponsor the conference in Geneva, Switzerland. However, this conference was doomed to fail, France and Italy would refuse to participate at the conference. at the conference. Also, Great Britain and the United States would fail to agree on cruiser tonnages. as a result the conference was a failure.