Why did European nations face financial challenges after World War I? Check all that apply.
They needed to recruit soldiers for the military.
They needed to rebuild destroyed infrastructure.
They needed to pay higher salaries to workers.
They needed to repay money they had borrowed.
They needed to finance students’ education.
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They needed to rebuild destroyed infrastructure.
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b. They needed to rebuild destroyed infrastructure.
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- Part of eastern and northern France was ravaged by the war physically. The economy of Germany was shattered and Britain almost became bankrupt. The Ottoman Empire and the Austrian-Hungarian Empire were disintegrating, and Russia was under revolt. This left the surviving peoples of Europe suffering and damage to the economy.
- Germany agreed to make cash payments to the Allies, which became known as reparations, under the Treaty of Versailles. The strong reparations in combination with Germany's crippling industrial infrastructures and international instability in Weimar contributed to economic stagnation
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