Thread: You restored what?

Only in America?

Originally Posted by Tins

It probably is only in America. Most other nations were forced to scrap their great ships, most notably Britain,

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I assume you refer to the results of the Washington Treaty and its successors. All the signatories scrapped ships - Britain (including its Dominions such as Australia) scrapped more than the others simply because they had more to start with. Without this treaty, there was a naval arms race beginning to get under way in the early 1920s. (And perhaps worth mentioning that France and Japan wanted to get the German fleet - which their crews scuttled in Scapa Flow, at the time it being suggested that Britain was involved in this to prevent the ships being useful to the other allies.)

Without this treaty, the US would have had fifty modern battleships by 1940, with Britain, France and Japan not far behind, with increased numbers of battleships also from other countries such as Italy. And probably a lot fewer aircraft carriers.

But the cost of building these would have made the impact of the Great Depression greater.