Enforcement of the Provisions of the Treaty of Versailles (Problems with it and what not)

U.S. Isolationism After the war it returned to its isolationism and did not want to intervene outside its own areas of interest The United States never accepted the Treaty of Versailles because the Senate did not agree with Article X The United States did not approve of the Anglo- American Guarantee which was a measure of protection for France if Germany was to attack again The United States had partaken in isolationism at many other points in history

Retreat from Anglo-American Guarantee Security was very important to France, who was very afraid of another attack from Germany once Germany regained its strength The Anglo-French agreement was signed on the 28 of June 1919 The United States Senate did not accept the Anglo-American Guarantee, causing Britain to withdraw from the agreement also and giving France no guaranteed no military support

The Washington Conference It was the most successful of the disarmament conferences Main accomplishment was agreement on 5:5:3 ratio 525,000 tons for the USA, 525,000 tons for Britain, and 315,000 tons for Japan of battleships Led to an effective end to building new battleship fleets. Numbers of existing capital ships were scrapped. Some ships under construction were turned into aircraft carriers instead race to build cruisers that were limited in size but not number

London Naval Conferences-1930/ Changed ratio to 10:10: Japan sought naval parity with the U.S. and Britain but was denied Japan and Italy walked out, but Britain, the U.S., and France reached an agreement All five powers were constructing vessels violating the agreements by 1938

The Geneva Conference-1932 There was an increased demand to revise the Paris Peace Settlement because a number of crises had occurred in the last few years The United states wanted the elimination of offensive weapons France was worried about German regaining its strength and so it did not want to reduce its military spending unless it got a guaranteed agreement with the other major powers to support France Germany wanted the major powers to either reduce their military spending to Germanys level or Germany should be allowed to increase its military spending to their level Germany left then rejoined the conference in 1933 by which time Adolf Hitler was chancellor