Young Plan

(noun)

A program for settlement of German reparation debts after World War I, written in 1929 and formally adopted in 1930.

Related Terms

  • Dawes Plan
  • Article 231
  • Occupation of the Ruhr
  • Treaty of Versailles

Examples of Young Plan in the following topics:

  • War Debts and Reparations

    • Dawes,   proposed a plan in 1924.
    • Young and presented its findings in June 1929.
    • The Young Plan was accepted and was ratified by the German Government in 1930.
    • In early July, Brüning announced "his intention to seek the outright revision of the Young Plan."
    • Describe Germany's reparations following World War I, including the Dawes and Young Plans, and their effect on the German economy.
  • Higher Education

    • During the 19th century, many small colleges helped young men make the transition from rural farms to complex urban occupations.
    • During the 19th century, the nation's many small colleges helped young men make the transition from rural farms to complex urban occupations.
    • Aided by the secession of many states that did not support the plans, this reconfigured Morrill Act was signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln in 1862.
    • The college was a center of middle-class values that served to help young people on their journey to white-collar occupations.
  • New Approaches to the Developing World

    • He also founded the Peace Corps, which recruited idealistic young people to undertake humanitarian projects in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
    • In March of 1961, Kennedy proposed a ten-year plan for Latin America, which called for an annual increase of 2.5% in per capita income; the establishment of democratic governments; the elimination of adult illiteracy by 1970; price stability to avoid inflation or deflation; more equitable income distribution; land reform; and economic and social planning.
    • Although Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion had publicly assured the United States that Israel did not plan to develop nuclear weapons, Kennedy tried to persuade Israel to permit some qualified expert to visit the site.
    • By naming young appointees, including scholars and liberal Democrats with government experience, to several embassies, Kennedy broke with Eisenhower's pattern.
  • "A More Perfect Union"

    • This became known as the Virginia Plan.
    • By the time the Convention started, the only blueprints that had been assembled were Madison's Virginia Plan, and Charles Pinckney's plan.
    • As Pinckney didn't have a coalition behind his plan, Madison's plan was the starting point for deliberations.
    • Agreeing on these principles, the Convention voted on the Virginia plan and began modifications.
    • Finally, delegates agreed on the Three-Fifths Compromise, which was able to temporarily keep the young nation together.
  • Last Efforts for Peace

    • Reform to them meant military service by all young men, called conscription.
    • Anti-militarists and pacifists, including Protestant church members and women's groups, protested the plan in the belief it would make America resemble Germany’s system of compulsory, two-year military service.
    • This long-term plan would double the army and increase the National Guard.
    • Summer camps on the Plattsburg model were authorized for new officers, while the House of Representatives gutted the naval plans as well, defeating a "big navy" plan.
    • European nations were already planning to use government subsidies, tariff walls and controlled markets to counter American business competition.
  • Factories, Working Women, and Wage Labor

    • Following his death in 1817, Lowell's associates built America's first planned factory town: the eponymous Lowell, Massachusetts.
    • Lowell's factory employed young female workers, some as young as ten years old.
    • In 1821, the young women employed by the Boston Manufacturing Company in Waltham went on strike for two days when their wages were cut.
  • Changes in Agricultural Production

    • This downturn in the rural economy also had a social effect on the farm, with many young workers who had experienced the world beyond their hometowns during the war chose to move to larger towns and cities.
    • This legislation, which never became law, was a highly controversial plan to address the concerns of farmers by raising the domestic prices of farm products.
    • The plan was to use more electricity, more efficient equipment, better seeds and breeds, more rural education, and better business practices.
    • The Hoover plan was adopted in 1929, before the October 29 stock market crash.
  • Women of the Civil Rights Movement

    • She was known to the volunteers of Freedom Summer — most of whom were young, white, and from northern states — as a motherly figure who believed that the civil rights effort should be multi-racial in nature.
    • In addition to her Northern guests, Hamer played host to Tuskegee University student activists Sammy Younge Jr. and Wendell Paris.
    • Younge and Paris grew to become profound activists and organizers under Hamer's tutelage.
    • The plan for desegregating the schools of Little Rock was to be implemented in three phases, starting first with the senior and junior high schools; then, only after the successful integration of senior and junior schools, the elementary schools would be integrated.
    • Bates used her organizational skills to plan a way for the nine students to get into Central High, using ministers to escort the children and speaking with parents.
  • The European Crisis

    • It was here that Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb student and member of the radical Young Bosnia group, assassinated the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne on June 28, 1914.
    • The German Empire mobilized its troops on July 30, 1914, ready to apply the "Schlieffen Plan," a quick, massive invasion of France meant to demolish its army.
    • The plan, however, required German troops to pass through the neutral nation of Belgium on its way to northern France.
  • "The War on Poverty"

    • The War on Poverty continued the plan of the Kennedy administration, with the goal of eliminating hunger and deprivation from American life.
    • The policy trains disadvantaged and at-risk youth and has provided more than two million disadvantaged young people with integrated academic, vocational, and social skills training.
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