Transcript WAR_POWERPOINT

Was the Washington
Naval Conference of
1921 an effective
agreement to assure
world peace?
Lauren Lee
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• led by President Warren G. Harding ,held in
Washington, D.C. from 12 November 1921 to
6 February 1922
• Conducted outside the auspices of the
League of Nations
• Attended by nine nations having interests in
the Pacific Ocean and East Asia.
• Soviet Russia was not invited to the
conference. It was the first international
conference held in the United States and the
first disarmament conference in history
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• limited the naval armaments of its
five signatories: the United States
of America, the British Empire,
the Empire of Japan, the French
Third Republic, and the Kingdom
of Italy
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• The Washington Naval Treaty led to an
effective end to building new battleship fleets
and those few ships that were built were
limited in size and armament. Numbers of
existing capital ships were scrapped. Some
ships under construction were turned into
aircraft carriers instead.
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• Did not stop violence
• The Treaty, coupled with the attack on Pearl
Harbor on December 7, 1941 was a major
cause of the United States Navy's
conversion from a battleship fleet to a
carrier-based force
• the Treaty was one of the factors which
contributed to the deterioration of the
relationship between the United States and
the Japanese Empire. The unfairness, at
least in the eyes of the Japanese, is also
what led to Japan's renunciation of the
Naval Limitation Treaties in 1936.
Another Treaty that Failed
The Treaty of Versailles also failed in disarming
Germany.
The Treaty of Versailled increased tension and want
for revenge within the Germans for all the shame and
blame that they received from the treaty; which
eventually led to the second World War.
One of the agreements was Germany to disarm all
weapons and armies, however, this was not kept
when Germany invaded Poland as what they recalled
irridentia.