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History Notes

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Treaty of Versailles

A peace document signed at the end of World War I by the Allied Forces (and associated powers), and by Germany in the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles on June 28, 1919.

Reparations

A levy (tax) on a defeated country forcing it to pay some of the war costs of the winning countries.

Germany had to pay a whole bunch of money to the Allied Forces (like the United States) as a result of World War I.