Short answerModerate1.5 marks
9(ii)
According to the Treaty of Versailles, the following are mentioned:
The war reparations to be paid by Germany.
Topic: Treaty of Versailles
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Answer
Exam answer
Germany was held guilty of causing the war (the War Guilt Clause) and was required to pay reparations for the loss and damage suffered by the Allies. The amount was fixed in 1921 at 6,600 million pounds (about 33 billion dollars), a sum far beyond her ruined economy.
Explanation
Give the figure if you can — it is what distinguishes a precise answer from a vague one — and name the War Guilt Clause, since the reparations followed from it. The consequence is worth a closing line: the burden wrecked the German economy, produced runaway inflation, and created the bitterness that Hitler later used to come to power.
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