reparation

Examples of reparation in the following topics:

• 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.
  • It established a theoretical final reparation figure at 112 billion gold marks (US$26.35 billion), with a new payment schedule that would see reparations completed by 1988—the first time a final date had been set.
  • 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.

• 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 Iran-Contra Scandal

  • The United States of America was a 1984 case of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in which the ICJ ruled in favor of Nicaragua and against the United States and awarded reparations to Nicaragua.

• Italy and 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.

• Hoover's Efforts at Recovery

  • On June 20, 1931, the president issued the so-called Hoover Moratorium, his proposal for a one-year halt in reparation payments by Germany to France as well as payments of Allied war debts to the United States.
  • Yet a working compromise was never established and by the start of World War II, reparations payments had stopped completely.

• Central America

  • The ICJ also ruled the U.S. was under an obligation "to make reparation to the Republic of Nicaragua for all injury caused" by the breaches.

• Origins of the Cold War

  • At the February 1945 Yalta Conference, they could not reach firm agreements on crucial postwar questions like the occupation of Germany and postwar reparations from Germany.