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The Washington Naval Conference (or the Washington Conference on the Limitation of Armament) was a disarmament conference called by the United States and held in Washington, D.C., from November 12, 1921, to February 6, 1922.
Conference on the Limitation of Armament (full text). iBiblio. 1922.: the Washington Naval Treaty. "The New Navies". Popular Mechanics (article): 738– 48. May 1929.: on warships provided for under the treaty. EDSITEment lesson Postwar Disillusionment and the Quest for Peace 1921–1929; In depth video discussion of the Washington Naval Treaty
The Four-Power Treaty (四カ国条約, Shi-ka-koku Jōyaku) was a treaty signed by the United States, Great Britain, France and Japan at the Washington Naval Conference on 13 December 1921. It was partly a follow-up to the Lansing-Ishii Treaty, signed between the U.S. and Japan. [1]
The Washington Conference, 1921-22: Naval Rivalry, East Asian Stability and the Road to Pearl Harbor (Taylor & Francis, 1994). Redford, Duncan. "Collective Security and Internal Dissent: The Navy League's Attempts to Develop a New Policy towards British Naval Power between 1919 and the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty." History 96.321 (2011): 48-67.
The National Council was composed of civic and religious organizations that were untied to build public support for the goals of the Washington Conference. The Council worked in collaboration with other collectives to further the goals of the Conference, namely to reduce naval arms expenditures and bring stability to the Pacific.
A major foreign policy achievement came with the Washington Naval Conference of 1921–1922, in which the world's major naval powers agreed on a naval limitations program that lasted a decade. Harding released political prisoners who had been arrested for their opposition to World War I .
The Washington Naval Conference was an arms control conference that sought to limit naval armaments amongst the world's powers. The U.S. sponsored a major world conference to limit the naval armaments of world powers, including the U.S., Britain, Japan, and France, plus smaller nations. [62]
November 12 – The Washington Naval Conference begins. [106] November 14 – Harding lays the corner stone for a World War I memorial in Washington, D.C. [107] November 17 – The House votes in favor of a 50% income surtax rate, despite Harding's insistence of a compromise at 40%. [108] [109]