After the end of WWI, the Treaty of Versailles was signed by the Allied Powers and forced upon Germany. In this treaty, Germany had to take full responsibility for starting the war and were forced to pay reparations. A reparation is an amount of money a country/individual must pay for damages they have caused. In this case, Germany had to pay for the damage they caused in other countries during World War I. The cost of these reparations were very expensive, leading to the rapid decline of the German economy.
Kristallnacht was an important event as it is considered the beginning of the holocaust. Throughout Germany and Austria, a pogrom was initiated by the Nazis. Synagogues were destroyed and Jewish shops were looted and ransacked. 91 Jews were killed and thousands of Jewish men were taken to concentration camps. This event became known as the November Pogrom or Kristallnacht.
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The United States of America
The Marshall Plan<span> (Or </span>European Recovery Program(ERP)<span>) was an American initiative to aid </span>Western Europe<span>, in which the </span>United States<span> gave over $13 billion</span><span> in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of </span>World War II<span>.
The plan was in operation for four years beginning on April 1948.
The goals of the United States were to rebuild war-devastated regions, remove </span>trade barriers<span>, modernize </span>industry<span>, make Europe prosperous once more, and prevent the spread of </span>communism.<span>The Marshall Plan encouraged an increase in </span>productivity<span>, </span>labour union<span> membership, as well as the adoption of modern business procedure.</span>
