by Matthew Wright | Apr 23, 2026 | History Article
Britain’s naval relationship with the United States during the First World War was surprisingly complex. On the one hand the US began constructing naval forces of scale to rival Britain’s, a process that gained diplomatic import and has been referred to by historians...
by Matthew Wright | Apr 26, 2022 | History Article
The term ‘Washington Treaty’ frequently appears in specialist naval books and even general histories of the inter-war period. There is no mistaking the meaning: it refers to the treaty signed on 6 February 1922 between the United States, Britain, Japan, France and...
by Matthew Wright | Feb 8, 2022 | History Article
Between 12 November 1921 and 6 February 1922 the world’s major powers met in Washington to resolve a wide range of international issues. Outcomes included a naval treaty – the ‘Five Power Treaty’, afterwards known as the ‘Washington Treaty’ – which ended a naval race...
by Matthew Wright | Jan 26, 2022 | History Article
It is a century since the world’s leading powers negotiated the ‘Washington Treaty’. This agreement of 6 February 1922 – called the ‘Five Power Treaty’ at the time[1] – required signatories to scrap numerous ships, including some as yet unfinished, dictated strict...
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