Washington Naval Conference
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The Washington Naval Conference was a diplomatic conference held in Washington, D.C. in 1921 and 1922. Held outside the auspices of the League of Nations, it was attended by nine nations having interests in the Pacific Ocean and East Asia. The Soviet Union was not invited to the conference. It was the first international conference held in the United States and the first disarmament conference in history.
It resulted in the creation of the Five-Power Treaty and the Nine-Power Treaty. The creation of these treaties preserved peace during the 1920s but are also credited with establishing the rise of the Japanese Empire as a naval power leading up to World War II.
