Sentences with phrase «reparations imposed»

«According to Brüning, the suffering they would cause would help elicit international sympathy for the Germans and help put an end to the unpopular reparations imposed at Versailles.»

The most notorious example is the reparation imposed by the Allied Powers at the end of World War I on Germany by the Versailles Treaty.

Not exact matches

But in the 1920s the Allies imposed an unpayably high reparations burden on Germany — largely to obtain the foreign exchange to pay the Inter-Ally arms debts that the U.S. Government insisted on collecting, rather than forgiving these debts as allies traditionally had done among themselves upon achieving victory.

Doha's Gulf neighbours have imposed a 10 - day deadline to comply with demands including reparations, closing Al Jazeera and regular inspections.

In 1921, reparations were based on the damages inflicted by outright war, not social or political wrongs, and they were imposed by the winners on the losers.

By 2020, the rich countries are supposed to annually hand out $ 100 billion in reparations — ah, aid — to help poor countries mitigate and adapt to climate change being imposed on them by rich country carbon dioxide emissions.

The Versailles consensus of 1918 imposed reparations on the defeated Germany, so that the conference that ended the First World War (15 million dead) sowed the seeds of the Second.

I've pointed out that the climate science indicates that blame for the dessicating assault on US soil that we have experienced must be laid at China's feet and a (not very large) tariff should be imposed to exact reparations for damages.