Question

Because of the devastation of world war 1 what best describes international attitudes toward Germany A)the world demanded revenge. B)the world sought payment from Germany for all the damage. C)the world sought revenge through a peace treaty naming Germany as responsible for damages. D)world war 2 started, due to so much anger and desire for revenge

Answer 1

B) the world sought payment from Germany for all the damage.

At the conclusion of World War I, the Allied and Associate Powers included in the Treaty of Versailles a plan for reparations to be paid by Germany. Germany was required to pay 20 billion gold marks, as an interim measure, while a final amount was decided upon. In 1921, the London Schedule of Payments established the German reparation figure at 132 billion gold marks (separated into various classes, of which only 50 billion gold marks was required to be paid). Meanwhile, the industrialists of Germany's Ruhr Valley, who had lost their factories in Lorraine (Germany had seized Lorraine in 1870 and it went back to France after WW1), demanded hundreds of millions of marks as compensation from the German government. Despite having large obligations under the Versailles Treaty, the German government paid the Ruhr Valley industrialists for their losses. This contributed significantly to the hyperinflation that followed.