Why Did World War I Just End?    • Share   • Read Later  Front
row, from left: Italian premier Vittorio Orlando, British PM
David Lloyd George, French premier Georges Clemenceau and U.S.
President Woodrow Wilson meet at Wilson's Paris home before the
signing of the Versailles Treaty  World War I ended over the
weekend. Germany made its final reparations-related payment for
the Great War on Oct. 3, nearly 92 years after the country's
defeat by the Allies. That's not to say that Germany has been
paying its dues consistently over the decades; the country
defaulted on its loans many times and the current payouts have
only been happening since the 1990s. What took Germany so long
to pay for the war? Didn't World War I end long ago? Does this
mean we're all survivors of the Great War?  Not quite. Germany's
last $94 million payment issued on Sunday isn't a direct
reparations settlement but rather the final sum owed on bonds
that were issued between 1924 and 1930 and sold to foreign
(mostly American) investors but th