USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

TREATY OF VERSAILLES

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Payment (pago) for damages after (daños después) a war is called

(A) Demilitarization

(B) Self-determination

(C) ** Reparations

(D) Nationalism

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -reparations, a levy on a defeated country forcing it to pay some of the war costs of the winning countries. Reparations were levied on the Central Powers after World War I to compensate the Allies for some of their war costs.

Concept note-2: -War reparations are compensation payments made after a war by one side to the other. They are intended to cover damage or injury inflicted during a war.

Concept note-3: -War reparations are payments by one state to another (or, sometimes, in modern practice, to individuals) at the end of a conflict, intended to compensate for the damage and injury inflicted during the war.

Concept note-4: -After World War II both West Germany and East Germany were obliged to pay war reparations to the Allied governments, according to the Potsdam Conference. Other Axis nations were obliged to pay war reparations according to the Paris Peace Treaties, 1947. Austria was not included in any of these treaties.