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The subsequent conferences in London in 1930 and 1936 (in which Japan and Italy were no longer participating) did not produce any significant and binding results. According to the bilateral German-British naval treaty of 1935, which met the decisive resistance of France (Germany would have the same fleet size as France), a reinforced Italian naval armament, and the growing US opposition to Japanese ambitions in the Far East, would effectively end any further efforts at naval arms control from the mid-1930s onward. Even isolationist America would leave the treaty behind; President [[Herbert Hoover]], a pacifist, would not allow naval construction as a means to fight the [[Great Depression]], but his successor President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] reversed course and used recovery money (from the [[PWA]]) to build 17 new battleships, and many other warships.<ref>William M. Mcbride, "The Unstable Dynamics of a Strategic Technology: Disarmament, Unemployment, and the Interwar Battleship." ''Technology & Culture'' 1997 38(2): 386-423</ref>
The subsequent conferences in London in 1930 and 1936 (in which Japan and Italy were no longer participating) did not produce any significant and binding results. According to the bilateral German-British naval treaty of 1935, which met the decisive resistance of France (Germany would have the same fleet size as France), a reinforced Italian naval armament, and the growing US opposition to Japanese ambitions in the Far East, would effectively end any further efforts at naval arms control from the mid-1930s onward. Even isolationist America would leave the treaty behind; President [[Herbert Hoover]], a pacifist, would not allow naval construction as a means to fight the [[Great Depression]], but his successor President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] reversed course and used recovery money (from the [[PWA]]) to build 17 new battleships, and many other warships.<ref>William M. Mcbride, "The Unstable Dynamics of a Strategic Technology: Disarmament, Unemployment, and the Interwar Battleship." ''Technology & Culture'' 1997 38(2): 386-423</ref>
In the period up to the beginning of the [[Second World War]] construction projects for new battleships began in many nations. In Great Britain, the ''King George V''-class battleships were built from 1936 onward; although officially they were measured at 35,000 tons, they actually displaced well over 40,000 tons. In the United States, the ''North Carolina''-class was laid down in 1937, with a maximum displacement of 45,000 tons and nine 16-inch guns; by 1941 the larger ''South Dakota'' and ''Iowa'' classes would be started. The mid-1930s also saw the construction of the ''Bismarck''-class in Germany, the ''Littorio''-class in Italy, and the ''Richelieu''-class in France, all of which had tonnages exceeding 43,000. In 1937 Japan laid down the keels of the two ships of the ''Yamato''-class, which exceeded 70,000 tons and carried to sea nine 18-inch guns, the largest battleships ever built.
==World War II==
==World War II==