Download or read book American Neutrality in the 20th Century written by John N. Petrie and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chronology of the 20th century that demonstrates that the U.S. found the requirements of strict neutrality less than useful for fulfilling its policy imperatives. Contents: the change (the Spanish-American War, the Mexican Revolution, avoiding World War I); the interwar period (the League of Nations, Havana Convention on Maritime Neutrality, the Kellogg-Briand Pact, an isolationist U.S.); fruits of isolationism; enter the U.N.; postwar "peace" (the Suez crisis, the Nixon doctrine, the 1971 Indo-Pakistani war, the bloody Lebanese "peace"); and perspective.