reparations

Examples of reparations in the following topics:

• Reparations

• Territory and Reparations

  • The Treaty of Versailles resulted in territorial changes around the world and required Germany to pay reparations for war damage.
  • The total sum of war reparations demanded from Germany—around 226 billion Marks—was decided by an Inter-Allied Reparations Commission.
  • Reparations in the form of coal played a big part in punishing Germany.
  • Germany finally finished paying its reparations in 2010.
  • Summarize the territorial changes and reparations laid out in the Treaty of Versailles.

• War Debts and Reparations

  • Under the burden of the reparation demands, the German economy was on the verge of collapse.
  • In response, Brüning announced that Germany was suspending reparation payments.
  • In June, Hoover publicly proposed a one-year moratorium to reparation and war debts.
  • During January 1932, Brüning said he would seek the complete cancellation of reparations.
  • This describes the trap of debt and reparations the world found itself in after WWI.

• France at the End of the Interwar Period

  • During the interwar period, war-torn France collected reparations from Germany, in some cases through occupation, suffered social upheaval and the consequent rise of socialism, and promoted defensive foreign policies.
  • Germany had to pay huge sums in war reparations to the Allies (who in turn had large loans from the U.S. to pay off).
  • As a response to the failure of the Weimar Republic to pay reparations in the aftermath of World War I, France occupied the industrial region of the Ruhr as a means of ensuring repayments from Germany.
  • The intervention was a failure, and France accepted the American solution to the reparations issues, as expressed in the Dawes Plan and the Young Plan.

• The Potsdam Conference

  • Agreement on war reparations to the Soviet Union from their zone of occupation in Germany.
  • The Soviet Union declared it would settle the reparation claims of Poland from its own share of the overall reparation payments.

• Yalta and the Postwar World

  • German reparations were partly to be in the form of forced labor.
  • Creation of a reparation council that would be located in the Soviet Union.

• Internment of Japanese Americans

  • Beginning in the 1960s, a younger generation of Japanese Americans, inspired by the Civil Rights movement, began what is known as the "Redress Movement," an effort to obtain an official apology and reparations from the federal government for incarcerating their parents and grandparents during the war.
  • The Commission recommended that $20,000 in reparations be paid to those Japanese Americans who had suffered internment.
  • The U.S. government eventually disbursed more than $1.6 billion in reparations to Japanese Americans who had been interned and their heirs.

• Wilson's Fourteen Points

  • The United Kingdom also wanted Germany to make reparation payments for the war and believed that condition should be included in the Fourteen Points.
  • The most controversial alteration was that Germany received the blame for the whole war and was required to pay an astronomical sum in war reparations, including compensation for the damage inflicted on the territories its military occupied and funding for the pensions of wounded Allied soldiers and widows.

• The Yalta Conference

  • German reparations were partly to be in the form of forced labor.
  • Creation of a reparation council which would be located in the Soviet Union.

• Hitler's Germany

  • The German economy suffered severe setbacks after the end of World War I, partly because of reparations payments required under the 1919 Treaty of Versailles.
  • When the government failed to make the reparations payments in January 1923, French troops occupied German industrial areas along the Ruhr.