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>
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The English colonists were more prepared to deal with the environment, after the first few journeys. They also formed militias, and had backing of the English Government fully to establish a new land