Washington's capital-ship quotas and the navies left outside

Britain and the United States received equal capital-ship tonnage, Japan received a smaller total, and France and Italy received still less. Russia remained outside while its civil war continued, and no participant intended to restore German naval power. Spain and the South American dreadnought owners posed a different problem: admitting them could create new combinations of fleets that Britain would demand enough tonnage to cover. The United States would then insist on matching Britain's status even while resisting the spending needed to sustain it, widening rather than containing the building program.