Assertion: preceding yorktown class aircraft carrier | /r/CapableOf | form formative basis
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text: The preceding Yorktown class aircraft carriers and the designers' list of trade offs and limitations forced by arms control treaty obligations formed the formative basis from which the Essex class was developed— a design formulation sparked into being when the Japanese and Italians repudiated the limitations proposed in the 1936 revision of the Washington Naval Treaty of 1925 (as updated in October 1930 in the London Naval Treaty)—in effect providing a free pass for all five signatories to resume the interrupted naval arms race of the 1920s in early 1937.