Question

HELP!!!Which was a major reason why European economies found it difficult to achieve economic recovery after World War I?
A. France and Britain were deeply indebted to the United States, while Germany had to pay war reparations.
B. Because Germany was destroyed by the war, French and British export markets declined.
C. Britain, France, and Germany experienced agricultural overproduction, which caused prices to drop to dangerously low levels.
D. Germany refused to pay any reparations, which sent the French and British economies into a tailspin.

Answer 1

Answer:

A. France and Britain were deeply indebted to the United States, while Germany had to pay war reparations.

Explanation:

During World War I France, Britain and other countries had borrowed around 10 billion dollars from the US treasury, they paid munitions, foodstuffs, cotton and other war-related purchases with that money. 

After the war ended the Woodrow Wilson administration gave these countries 3 years so they would recover and pay them. But those countries at the same time they had to pay the debt had to reconstruct their own country and their economy and it wasn’t an easy task.

For Germany things were worse, the Treaty of Versailles demanded financial restitution of 132 billion gold marks which equal 269 billion dollars today, but Germany was destroyed and 15% of men in the country got killed. Because of that, economical recovery was harder.