USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -France and Italy, opposed respectively to the concept of ratios and to the acceptance of any inequality, declined to sign. The treaties were to run until 1936.

Detailed explanation-2: -The London Naval Treaty, officially the Treaty for the Limitation and Reduction of Naval Armament, was an agreement between the United Kingdom, Japan, France, Italy, and the United States that was signed on 22 April 1930.

Detailed explanation-3: -Borah (R–Idaho) led a congressional effort to demand that the United States engage its two principal competitors in the naval arms race, Japan and the United Kingdom, in negotiations for disarmament.

Detailed explanation-4: -The signatories were France, the United States, and most members of the British Commonwealth: Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom (on behalf of itself and “all parts of the British Empire which are not separate Members of the League of Nations").

Detailed explanation-5: -The London Naval Conference of 1930 was the third in a series of five meetings, formed with the purpose of placing limits on the naval capacity of the world’s largest naval powers.