text: The Haldane Mission attempted to curb the spending on these objects.
full_question: The Haldane Mission attempted to curb the spending on these objects. Horace de Vere Colepretended to be part of a delegation from Abyssinia so that he and his friends, including Virginia Woolf,could visit one of these objects. This was the less common of the two objects that the country meeting the"two-power standard" built more of. Alfred von Tirpitz urged the construction of both the normal and (*)pocket type of these objects. A 5:5:3 ratio of these objects was fixed at the 1921-22 Washington Arms Conference.A generation of these objects known as "dreadnoughts" were revolutionary for their steam turbines and all-big-gunarmaments. For 10 points, name these vehicles that the Germans and British competed to build in an early 20thcentury naval arms race.
first_sentence: The Haldane Mission attempted to curb the spending on these objects.
raw_answer: battleships [prompt on ships; prompt on warships]