REVISION IGCSE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY: YOUNG PLAN

1. YOUNG
PLAN
IGCSE HISTORY
REVISION

2. DEFINITION
The Young Plan was an attempt to reduce and restructure German
reparations payment.

3. Question 1
Where did the plan get its
name?

4. Answer 1
It was named after the US financier who wanted to address the fact
that Germany had not made any payments since 1921.

5. Question 2
What three things did the plan
recommend?

6. Answer 2
The reparations bill was reduced by three-quarters.
Payments were spread out over a period lasting until 1988.
Germany could postpone payment in times of economic hardship.

7. Question 3
Why did it ultimately fail?

8. Answer 3
Stresemann died soon after the plan was published; when the Nazis
came to power Hitler stopped all reparations payments.
Owen Young, 1924
Gustave Stresemann

9. Question 4
Name three other agreements set up by
the Europeans in the 1920’s to remove
potential threats to peace and stability/

10. Answer 4
The Dawes Plan 1924.
The Locarno Treaty 1925.
The Kellogg-Briand Pact 1928.

11. Important
This was never anything more than a “paper dream”.
Stresemann’s death, the Depression and the rise of Nazism meant that
it never came into operation.