Which action associated with the United States' "return to normalcy" is described below? In 1921, a treaty was established betwe
en the United States, France, England, Italy, and Japan agreeing to a ten-year ban on building new military ships or aircraft carriers. A) Anti-Militarization Peace Treaty
B) Versailles Conference
C) League of Nations Pact
D) Washington Disarmament Conference
The Washington Disarmament Conference was a military conference organized by US President Harding in 1921. It was called outside the mechanisms of the League of Nations, and nine nations were invited to participate: US, China, Japan, Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, Portugal and Netherlands. Russia and Germany were not invited.
<u>For the first time in history, the purpouse of the meeting was to establish a limitation on weapons' production. </u>