The Washington Conference of 1922

The Washington Conference of 1922 was the first general conference of World Powers ever held in the United States. It marked our participation in international affairs as a world power of the first rank. Its aims were two-folds to bring about a limitation of armaments on the part of the principal Allied and Associated Powers; and to solve Pacific and Far Eastern problems by a concerted effort on the part of nine nations, including the United States, the British Empire, France, Italy, Japan Belgium, China, The Netherlands, and Portugal. [...]