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==World War I==
==World War I==
see [[Battle of Jutland]]
==Interwar==
==Interwar==
At the [[Washington Naval Conference]] in 1921, Britain, France, Italy, Japan, and the United States established a ten-year moratorium on the construction of battleships as well as a limitation on the building and sale of other types of vessels. The primary purpose of the conference was to restrict competition among the Great Powers in the production of large warships. The moratorium was successful but it was not renewed in 1931, and all the Great Powers began a new battleship race, this time with Germany participating too. President [[Herbert Hoover]], a pacifist, would not allow naval construction as a means to fight the [[Great Depression]]. 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>
At the [[Washington Naval Conference]] in 1921, Britain, France, Italy, Japan, and the United States established a ten-year moratorium on the construction of battleships as well as a limitation on the building and sale of other types of vessels. The primary purpose of the conference was to restrict competition among the Great Powers in the production of large warships. The moratorium was successful but it was not renewed in 1931, and all the Great Powers began a new battleship race, this time with Germany participating too. President [[Herbert Hoover]], a pacifist, would not allow naval construction as a means to fight the [[Great Depression]]. 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>