USA HISTORY

According to the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany has to pay ____ as reparation.

(A) 100, 000 USD

(B) 100, 000, 000 pounds

(C) 321 USD

(D) ** 6.6 billion pounds

Concept note-1: -Reparations-Germany was to be made to pay for the damage suffered by Britain and France during the war. In 1922 the amount to be paid was set at £6.6 billion.

Concept note-2: -The Treaty of Versailles didn’t just blame Germany for the war-it demanded financial restitution for the whole thing, to the tune of 132 billion gold marks, or more than $500 billion today.

Concept note-3: -The war guilt clause of the treaty deemed Germany the aggressor in the war and consequently made Germany responsible for making reparations to the Allied nations in payment for the losses and damage they had sustained in the war.