During world war 2, the government temporarily canceled the fourteenth amendment, claiming the constitution

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.

which statement explains one of the reasons world war 1 was so much more destructive than earlier conflicts