Washington Naval Arms Limitation Treaty
Washington Naval Arms Limitation Treaty (1922).After World War I, fear that an unrestrained naval race would lead to another world war, the corollary hope that arms limitation would ensure peace, and the demand for domestic economy combined to generate the pressures and incentives that led to the Washington Conference of 1921–22, the most ambitious pre‐nuclear effort to limit arms in the history of the United States. The conference produced a series of agreements intended to end naval competition between the United States, Great Britain, and Japan, and to stabilize the political situation in East Asia. The Washington Naval Treaty established tonnage ratios for battleships and aircraft carriers of the United States, Great Britain, Japan, France, and Italy 5, 5, 3, 1.75, and 1.75, respectively. The United States, Great Britain, and Japan also agreed not to build more fortifications on...
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