Naval Act of 1916
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title:
Naval Act of 1916
text:
The Naval Act of 1916 was also called the "Big Navy Act" was United States federal legislation that called for vastly enlarging the US Navy. President Woodrow Wilson determined amidst the repeated incidents with Germany during the First World War to build "incomparably, the greatest Navy in the world" over a ten-year period with the intent of making the U.S. Navy able to defend itself against any European power. The bill called for the construction of ten 42,000-ton battleships, six battlecruise
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Act_of_1916
date created:
2008-11-14T17:58:21Z
date modified:
2024-09-13T21:43:12Z
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