Germany was required to accept responsibility for causing all the damage of the war .The Treaty of Versailles had significant negative economic impacts on Germany. Germany was required to pay the Allies $33 billion in reparations for the war damages caused by World War I. These payments made it very difficult for Germany to take actions that would help Germany's economy grow.
As a result of Germany's inability to pay these reparations, French and Belgian troops invaded the Ruhr Valley in order to seize raw materials and industrial centers which would serve as partial payment. They took control of mines and factories and requisitioned a large number of goods from this industrial region.
In 1492 Columbus landed on an island of the Bahamas, the first European to do so. His initial goal was to find a quicker route to Asia from Europe. He is credited with the discovery of the New World because his voyage started the era of European colonialism in the Americas
