HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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A payment to the allies for starting the war
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A payment from the allies for starting the war
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A payment for exploration
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A payment to Africa for natural resources
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Detailed explanation-1: -Reparations were levied on the Central Powers after World War I to compensate the Allies for some of their war costs. They were meant to replace war indemnities which had been levied after earlier wars as a punitive measure as well as to compensate for economic losses.
Detailed explanation-2: -World War I reparations means the payments and transfers of property and equipment that Germany was forced to make after its defeat during World War I.
Detailed explanation-3: -Payments. According to the Yalta Conference, no reparations to Allied countries would be paid in money (though that rule was not followed in later agreements). Instead, much of the value transferred consisted of German industrial assets as well as forced labour to the Allies.
Detailed explanation-4: -Over the next four years, U.S. banks continued to lend Germany enough money to enable it to meet its reparation payments to countries such as France and the United Kingdom. These countries, in turn, used their reparation payments from Germany to service their war debts to the United States.