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Tirpitz also argued that Germany had invested too much money into the naval program to halt it and that the domestic political coalition that had been created to support the naval buildup would react unpredictably if the government left the arms race. Facing an ever-expanding budget deficit, but lacking the confidence of the Kaiser and unable ...
The South American dreadnought race between Argentina, Brazil and Chile from 1907 to 1914. The Anglo-German naval arms race, between Imperial Germany and the United Kingdom from 1898 to 1912. The Cold War nuclear arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union, which involved both land and naval nuclear expansion.
Padfield, Peter The Great Naval Race: Anglo-German Naval Rivalry 1900–1914 (2005) Palmer, Alan. Crowned Cousins: The Anglo-German Royal Connection (London, 1985). Ramsden, John. Don’t Mention the War: The British and the Germans since 1890 (London, 2006). Reinermann, Lothar. "Fleet Street and the Kaiser: British public opinion and Wilhelm II."
This theory sparked a naval arms race between Germany and Great Britain in the first decade of the 20th century. This theory was based on the assumption that Great Britain would have to send its fleet into the German Bight for a close blockade of the ports (blockading Germany was the only way that the Royal Navy could seriously harm Germany ...
The Anglo-German Naval Agreement (AGNA) of 18 June 1935 was a naval agreement between the United Kingdom and Germany regulating the size of the Kriegsmarine in relation to the Royal Navy. The Anglo-German Naval Agreement fixed a ratio whereby the total tonnage of the Kriegsmarine was to be 35% of the total tonnage of the Royal Navy on a ...
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Germany too needed a way to stop the ruinous naval race in order to spend more on its army; it hoped also to keep Britain neutral in a war between Germany and France. [ 7 ] At this point in January 1912 two well-connected civilians entered the picture, and brokered negotiations between their respective governments.
The U.S. Department of Defense said in a 2023 report to Congress that China's rocket force has 2,300 missiles with ranges between 300 km and 3,000 km, and a further 500 that can travel between ...