Question

Analyze the goals of the Washington Conference. Did they achieve them? What did they achieve?

Answer 1

The Washington Naval Treaty results to an very effective end which the building of new battleship fleets and few ships that were built were limited in armament and size. Numbers of those existing capital ships were also scrapped. Some ships were under construction, turned into aircraft carriers..

Even with the Washington Treaty, the major navies still tried to remained suspicious of the each other, and must a brief while (1927–30) engaged in a race which build cruisers that had been limited to size (10,000 tons) but not numbers which oversight was even resolved on value of cruisers by the London Naval Treaty of 1930.
For the first time submarines were limited, those with Japan given parity with the Britain and US at 53,000 tons each. The U.S. Navy started maintaining an active building program which replaced obsolescent warships with the technically much new and sophisticated models in part because of its construction and were important sources of political patronage, as well as much protected by Congress. During the New Deal, furthermore, relief funds were used to build warships. "The naval program was wholly mine," President Roosevelt boasted.