USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

TREATY OF VERSAILLES

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What were reparations?

(A) Reparations are destruction of property

(B) Repairs and improvements made to Germany

(C) ** Payments in the billions that Germany was forced to make to rebuild Europe

(D) Payments that America would make to Germany

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -The Treaty of Versailles (signed in 1919) and the 1921 London Schedule of Payments required Germany to pay 132 billion gold marks (US$33 billion [all values are contemporary, unless otherwise stated]) in reparations to cover civilian damage caused during the war.