Answer;
-They needed to rebuild destroyed infrastructure.
-They needed to repay money they had borrowed.
Explanation;
-There was a strong sense of forlornness and desolation that dominated Europe after WWI.
-On one hand, the economic and human cost of the war was unimaginable. Death and injury tolls into the tens of millions truly made the war something that cast a shadow of gloom over the entire continent.
-The beliefs that dominated Europe about the "glory of war fighting" were dispelled by the end of the First World War. The destruction wrought on the Continent made rebuilding a task that was almost impossible to undertake. At the same time, millions of women lost husbands, children lost parents, and a sense of abandonment and loss enveloped the nation.
