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The was a treaty signed by the

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and

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at the

Washington Naval Conference The Washington Naval Conference was a disarmament conference called by the United States and held in Washington, DC from November 12, 1921 to February 6, 1922. It was conducted outside the auspices of the League of Nations. It was attended by nine ...

on 13 December 1921. It was partly a follow-on to the Lansing-Ishii Treaty, signed between the U.S. and Japan. This was a treaty related to

Treaty for the Limitation of Naval Armament The Treaties for the Limitation of Naval Armament were numerous accords in the 1920s signed variously by the United States, Great Britain, Japan, Italy and France. The treaties were an outgrowth of the Washington Naval Conference, held by the US i ...

that attempted to maintain peace in the Pacific. It was signed at Washington, D.C. on 13 December 1921. By the Four-Power Treaty, all parties agreed to maintain the status quo in the Pacific, by respecting the Pacific territories of the other countries signing the agreement, not seeking further territorial expansion, and mutual consultation with each other in the event of a dispute over territorial possessions. However, the main result of the Four-Power Treaty was the termination of the

Anglo-Japanese Alliance The first was an alliance between Britain and Japan, signed in January 1902. The alliance was signed in London at Lansdowne House on 30 January 1902 by Lord Lansdowne, British Foreign Secretary, and Hayashi Tadasu, Japanese diplomat. A d ...

of 1902. The powers agreed to respect each other’s Pacific island dependencies for ten years.{{Cite web, title=20th-century international relations - The postwar guilt question, url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/20th-century-international-relations-2085155, access-date=2021-02-08, website=Encyclopedia Britannica, language=en

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References

* Ian H. Nish, ''The Anglo-Japanese Alliance: The Diplomacy of Two Island Empires 1894–1907'', The Athlone Press, London and Dover NH, first published 1966. * J. Chal Vinson, "The Drafting of the Four-Power Treaty of the Washington Conference," ''Journal of Modern History'' 25#1 (Mar., 1953), pp. 40–4
online.

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