During the early part of the great depression in the 1930s, leaders in great britain adopted a policy of retrenchment. they hoped to improve the nation's economy by
a. reducing the size of the government and raising taxes.
b. reducing income taxes and promoting private investment.
c. reducing government spending and balancing the budget.
d. reducing tariffs and importing more inexpensive foreign products.

this means that germany had to pay the allied countries. reparations are/is essentially payment for something that they have done wrong, so after ww1, germany was forced to pay reparations so they could replenish the allied countries resources' that they had lost during the war.

the committees of correspondence were the american colonies’ means for maintaining communication lines in the years before the revolutionary war. in 1764, boston formed the earliest committee of correspondence to encourage opposition to britain’s stiffening of customs enforcement and prohibition of american paper money. the following year, new york formed a similar committee to keep the other colonies notified of its actions in resisting the stamp act. in 1773, the virginia house of burgesses proposed that each colonial legislature appoint a committee for intercolonial correspondence. the exchanges that followed built solidarity during the turbulent times and bring about the formation of the first continental congress in 1774.