HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Payments made for damages caused during a war
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paying a tax on imported goods
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repairing a friendship between two or more countries
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-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.
Detailed explanation-2: -The precise figure Germany paid is a matter of dispute. The German Government estimated it had paid the equivalent of 67.8 billion gold marks in reparations.
Detailed explanation-3: -Treaty of Versailles Allied victors took a punitive approach to Germany at the end of World War I. Intense negotiation resulted in the Treaty of Versailles’ “war guilt clause, ‘’ which identified Germany as the sole responsible party for the war and forced it to pay reparations.
Detailed explanation-4: -In total, the Allies took about $413 million worth of reparations (both in money and in goods) from their occupation zones. In 1952, the London Agreement on German External Debts assessed the final reparation figure at $3 billion. Germany has yet to pay off its debts for World War II.
Detailed explanation-5: -What are war reparations? At the end of a war, countries are required to make payments as a way of making up for the damage inflicted. This was the case at the end of World Wars I and II. The debt can be paid back for many reasons, including machinery damage, and forced labor.