World War I reparations

On October 29, 1929 there was a wall street crash in the United States that savaged through nearly the entire world’s economy.(source G) Countries had to slow down in the amount of goods imported into the land and famine soon spread around the world. Germany itself depended on loans from the United States and now it had to find a way to survive. With the Great Depression taking course in history, every country had to find money from wherever they could and survive with merely scraps. People lost their hope; suicide and crime rate skyrocketed and the Weimar leaders didn’t know what in the world to do. In addition to that, the US asked Germany to pay back all the loans they had borrowed.(source J) This meant that if Germany was on a tight budget, it was about to get worse. Government leaders soon came up with an idea that would handle their money in a smarter and more effective…

gruesome World War I with two choices: to sign the treaty, or to be invaded and face yet another war. If they choose to sign, this would mean that they were solely “responsible” for the damage World War I had caused worldwide and would have to face the appropriate penalty for doing so. It was with great difficulty that Germany signed the Treaty of Versailles. Although a percentage from the German government were open to continuing the war, the German military was not prepared for it. The Germans…

Versailles forced Germany to take responsibility for World War 1. The Treaty of Versailles had a very harsh impact on Germany. Germany was forced to reduce their military and to give up its land overseas and their small colonies. Germany’s government became incredible week which gave an opening for Hitler to rise for power because the german people needed a figure to look up to. The Treaty of Versailles forced Germany to reduce their military power. They could no longer have submarines, tanks…

The First World War had taken a serious toll on the German nation. The Treaty of Versailles, forcing Germany to spend £6600 Million worth of reparations, had left the country economically crippled, with national pride at an all-time low. As well as this, around 2,037,000 German soldiers dying during the four years, the country was in mourning and turmoil. The Kaiser had fled in exile to the Netherlands, leaving the nation to determine who took power. Hence, the Weimar Government was created – a…

The diplomatic actions of forming agreements and relationships with other European nations, such as the U.S., Great Britain, France, Belgium, and Italy, had resulted in political strength within the Weimar Republic. The Dawes Plan of 1924 had an impact on the reparations of the regime as it reduced the amount of money owed from 132 billion gold marks (US$33 billion) to 1000 million marks in 1925, followed by an increase of 2500 million marks over the next five years and an adjusted amount from…

Germany before Adolf Hitler took over was not in a well-rested state. They just lost World War I and basically had to rebuild the country from all the destruction it took during the war. The economy in Germany was completely destroyed, and it didn’t help when the Treaty of Versailles made Germany to disarm their army, make substantial territorial concessions, and pay reparations to certain countries, which finally cost them $31.4 billion. The country was in need of a miracle worker. Before going…

who died were bigger against the Holocaust. Contrasted with the Armenian Genocide a bigger population and a bigger geographic zone the occasions occurred in. The Holocaust culprits were for the most part caught and conveyed to murder. Germany paid and keeps on paying reparations to Israel and the descendents of the casualties and their families. All stolen and appropriated property have been come back to their proprietors or their families. Universal laws were issued to keep such chaos from…

Genocide is a word used to describe the destruction of a nation or ethnic group. The word being derived from the Greek word genos meaning “race” and the Latin word cide meaning “killing”. The Armenian genocide, although covered up, was particularly brutal. The Ottoman Turks had a lot to do with the genocide taking place, the murders were brutal and the Ottoman Turks and Turkish people today have had a lot of control over the aftermath. At the time, the Ottoman Turks had just entered World War…

A revolutionary, but flawed man, President Woodrow Wilson blamed Europe’s fragile infrastructure on its dependence on a balance of power, and so he proposed his Fourteen Points at the Paris Peace Conference and with it the groundworks for an effective peace with the creation of a League of Nations. The League would serve as an international parliamentary system responsible for the maintenance of peace through a system of collective security, whereby external aggression against a member nation…

Germany from 1919 to 1923. This government was designed to be the perfect democracy, but it ended having many economic and political problems. All this because of its very significant weaknesses that include ineffective constitution, weak leadership, and the army. The Weimar Republic was created after the First World War. Right after the Kaiser, William II, was renounced of his power for his failure in the war, the people in charge decided to designed a new government hoping that the Allies will…