Improvements in Navigational Devices such as Maps and Instruments such as the compass and Astrolabe as well as significant improvements in Ship-making increased European Exploration.
President Warren Harding's secretary of state, Charles Evans Hughes, was the one who called for a ten-year moratorium on warship construction. Britain, France, Japan, Italy, and US were the countries that helped Hughes to create the ten-year moratorium on new warships.
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