HIST 103 Lecture : Week 10 Reading.docx
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The qing government was ineffective overthrown by the chinese revolution in 1911 . Qing rulers relied on japan for: 1) financial assistance and political advice. Anxious to retain manchuria (manchukuo) and inner mongolia. The new government formed looked to europe for support. Main achievement: five power treaty simply tonnage ratio for existing capital ships and temporary halt for 10 years from constructing new ships. Participating countries: us, japan, france, italy, britain. Other achievements: limit the naval arms race, reduce pacific tensions. Also significant as global negotiation for peace regret when comparing the with the vague specification during paris peace conference. In a similar manner to munich pact, nazi-soviet pact: this conference prevents the. Japanese from expanding its naval force to terrorize chinese mainland and southeast. Asia japan was willing to do it since other powers also had to limit their naval force. Shidehara was a delegate to the washington conference. Gist of the diplomacy peace settlement, open negotiations, opinion mobilization.
