USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

TREATY OF VERSAILLES

[SOURCES]
Repayment of war damages

(A) ** Reparations

(B) Bolsheviks

(C) Militarism

(D) Soviet

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -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-2: -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-3: -Hans Mommsen wrote “Germany financed its reparation payments to Western creditor nations with American loans", which the British and French then used to “cover their long-term interest obligations and to retire their wartime debts with the United States."

Concept note-4: -"According to the German government, the case of reparations and compensation for war damage remains closed, ” said the ministry in a press release. “The German government does not intend to open negotiations on this matter."