Chapter 299: Major Military Expansion of Various Countries (Request for monthly votes!)

According to the Naval Act announced by William II, Germany will build three battleships and one battlecruiser every year from 1912 to 1914, striving to have more than 17 dreadnought and super-dreadnought battleships, 5 battlecruisers, 22 pre-dreadnoughts, 32 cruisers, 114 destroyers, and 30 submarines in the German Navy by the end of 1914.

This Naval Act includes as many as four more battleships than it did historically, which means that during the following three years, Germany will build 1.33 more battleships per year compared to the history.

The naval supplement act that the Germans announced, which will officially begin at the beginning of 1912, quickly caught the attention of the British who pay great attention to German affairs.

On October 25, 1911, shortly after the Germans announced their naval expansion act, Winston Schmidt, who had just exchanged jobs with Navy Secretary McKenna, became the new Navy Secretary of the British Empire.