14. The Dawes Plan was O a) a military strategy for the defense of western Europe should Germany invade France or Belgium in the 1930s. b) a plan to assist Germany in recovering from the hyper-inflation by restructuring reparations payments and providing loans. od a plan by which the U.S. promised to loan money and war materiel to Britain to assist them in their defense against Germany in the event that Hitler should begin to expand. O d) the plan by which the U.S. recovered from the stock market crash in 1929