Foreign Policy during the Great Depression

    America was obviously focusing on its internal issues during the Great Depression, but what was its foreign policy, and how was it affected?

   The area of focus during the 1930s for America was to keep on devising ways to avoid being sucked in to another war. With the stock market crash, banking failures, and the general Great Depression, chaos had to be prevented, and so Congress passed various Neutrality Acts to avoid war. However, these Acts explicitly prevented Americans from trading with nations that were at war at the time, thereby creating this era of American isolationism that's so well known, now. The US could not even look to Great Britain for help, as they couldn't reach a consensus with them to resolve the current economic crisis with the gold standard.

  Isolationism was further triggered in Franklin Delano Roosevelt's stressing of his "New Deal" to counter the effects of the Great Depression. The New Deal, which looked to expand upon the role of the government to help the national economy, largely contrasted with the idea of foreign policy, which just didn't fit in the environment of national economic recovery, and the focus on self-evaluation.

   On the positive side, however, came the introduction of America's "Good Neighbor Policy", in which America would reduce its military presence in its neighboring Latin American countries, as well as improve the relations between them, in general, as they would let them do what they wanted without American interference.

Source:
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1921-1936/great-depression