Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and onwards

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    This Conference that attempted to resolve the naval arms race among the United States, Great Britain, and Japan, and to resolve disagreements in the Pacific. The Washington Naval Treaty of February 6, 1922, had five signatories: the United States, Great Britain, Japan, France, and Italy. The United States ratified the agreement in 1923. Under the treaty, with specified exceptions for current or under-construction vessels, the navies of the United States and Great Britain were limited to 525,000 tons. The Japanese were limited to 315,000 tons, while the French and Italians could keep 175,000 tons apiece. The maximum size of an individual ship was 35,000 tons, and the maximum gun size was 16 inches. The Washington Naval Treaty included aircraft carriers...
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    The restrictions on tonnage on Great Britain, the United States, and Japan relative to one another were an important issue for discussion. The Washington conference established a ratio of 5:5:3 for capital ships—for every five capital ships the Americans and British had, the Japanese were allowed to have three. As in 1927, Japan insisted that the ratio for auxiliary vessels be increased to 10:10:7, rather than maintaining the 5:5:3 ratio. If the United States was to have 18 heavy cruisers, the latter ratio placed the Japanese limit at 10 cruisers; however, at the time of the conference, Japan had built or was building 12 new ships. The United States was the power most opposed to granting the higher ratio, although it ultimately conceded the point; the official terms of the treaty granted the 10:7 ratio on light cruisers and destroyers and maintained the 10:6 ratio on heavy cruisers, but with a compromise under which the United States delayed its shipbuilding program to give Japan a grace period with a 10:7 ratio in heavy cruisers as well.
     
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    1935/36 Treaty
    Great Britain, France, and the United States signed an agreement declaring a six-year holiday on building large light cruisers in the 8,000 to 10,000 ton range. On 25 March 1936 a naval agreement between France, United States, Britain, Australia, Canada, India, and New Zealand was signed. "Desiring to reduce the burdens and prevent the dangers inherent in competition in naval armament; and Desiring, in view of the forthcoming expiration of the Treaty for the Limitation of Naval Armament signed at Washington on the 6th of February, 1922, and of the Treaty for the Limitation and Reduction of Naval Armament signed in London on the 22nd of April, 1930, ... to make provision for the limitation of naval armament, and for the exchange of information concerning naval construction; ..." That final decision marked the end to the decade-long controversy over cruisers. And on 06 November 1936 Australia, Canada, France, Britain, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United States signed a procés-verbal continuing the 1930 treaty on submarine warfare.
     
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    The question is -who came off best in the years following this treaty and who came off worst???


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