3: Washington Naval Conference
Description
In late 1921 the major naval powers of the world would gather in Washington D.C. to discuss the possibility of a naval limitation treaty. The result would be the largest, and really most successful, arms limitation treaty in human history.
Sources
- Naval Policy Between Wars. Volume I: The Period of Anglo-American Antagonism 1919-1929 by Stephen Roskill and Corelli Barnett
- Warships After Washington: The Development of the Five Major Fleets 1922-1930 by John Jordan
- The British Battleship 1906-1946 by Norman Friedman
- From Mahan to Pearl Harbor: The Imperial Japanese Navy and the United States by Sadao Asada