WORLD WAR I
CAUSES AND COURSE OF THE WAR
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Payment to Bolshevik Russia
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Payment to defeated powers for reconstruction
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Payment to Belgian civilians for German massacres
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Payment of money for war guilt
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Detailed explanation-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.
Detailed explanation-2: -War reparations are compensation payments made after a war by one side to the other.
Detailed explanation-3: -The War Guilt Clause of the Treaty of Versailles mandated that Germany assume responsibility for all damages incurred in the First World War.
Detailed explanation-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.