1919: ANUL RIVALITĂŢII NAVALE AMERICANO-BRITANICE
1919: THE YEAR OF THE AMERICAN-BRITISH NAVAL RIVALRY

Summary/Abstract: After the First World War, the Royal Navy will lose its primacy in the hierarchy of the world's most powerful military fleets, everything being regulated by the provisions of the Washington Conference (1921-1922), which will ensure parity between the maximum tonnage of American warships and British warships. Everything was preceded by a period of disputes over naval supremacy at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, where the British would use as a bargaining chip the signing of the treaty that led to the establishment of the League of Nations, the project so dear to American President Woodrow Wilson. Even if a formal regulation of these rivalries was not reached, the period is important for clearly identifying the naval objectives of the two actors at the beginning of the interwar period.

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