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Young Plan

United States of America · Warfare / World War, 1st. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

5Records
1929–1930Date range
1Named people
0Places

Chronological records

1929

Owen Young7 June 1929

Warfare / World War, 1st

The Reparations Committee, is appointed by the Allied Reparation Committee, meets in the first half of 1929, and submits its first report

Owen Young31 August 1929

Warfare / World War, 1st

The Young Plan meets with great objections from the United Kingdom but, after a first Hague Conference, the plan is finalized

1930

Owen YoungJanuary 1930

Warfare / World War, 1st

Germany would know the exact extent of German obligations and to reduce the payments appreciably, the Young Plan divided the annual payment, set at about $473 million, into two elements-an unconditional part (one third of the sum)

Owen YoungJanuary 1930

Warfare / World War, 1st

The Young Plan calls for an international bank of settlements to handle the reparations transfers, the resulting Bank for International Settlements was duly established at the Hague Conference.

Owen YoungJanuary 1930

Warfare / World War, 1st

The Young Plan sets the total reparations at $26,350,000,000 to be paid over a period of 58 years & is adopted by the Allied Powers to supersede the Dawes Plan. The Young Plan is formally adopted at the second Hague Conference.

Names involved

Owen Young

Provenance

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