How France s economy developed after World War II

Excellent education and foreign loans, of course.

Basically, Jane Orange is a ruin.

As a result of the predatory occupation by Nazi Germany, the economies of most European countries were in a state of collapse, and most of the cities were in ruins due to the devastation of the war.

Militarily, the Allies basically maintained order in the region, with Western Europe dominated by British and American troops, and Eastern Europe dominated by Soviet troops.

However, the gap between Eastern and Western Europe after the war was reflected, because Europe was the traditional ** region of the United States, so in order to restore the European economy as soon as possible, the United States provided a large amount of aid and low-interest and interest-free loans to Western European countries to help Europe rebuild.

The Soviet Union, on the other hand, appeared in Eastern Europe as an aggressor, not only did not provide support for the reconstruction of Europe (in fact, the Soviet Union was also very difficult at that time), but also plundered the wealth and resources of Europe on a large scale, and at the same time forced socialist revolution and transformation in the occupied areas of the Soviet Union (this is why there are so many communist countries in Eastern Europe, but not a single communist country in Western Europe).

This also led directly to the huge gap in the development of Eastern and Western Europe in the post-war period.

In fact, the destructive power of war to a region and a country is quite large, as one of the main battlefields of World War II, Europe, suffered no less damage than China and Japan after the war, but because of a large amount of aid from the United States, and Europe's already excellent economic and political foundation, it resumed development soon after the war, while China was caught in the three-year civil war, and later the Korean War, thus missing the fast bus of rapid global economic development.

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Although France won the First World War, the foundations of its national economy were severely damaged. According to incomplete statistics, 10,000 industrial enterprises, 1,500 bridges, 10,000 houses and 7,500 schools were destroyed during the war, especially the industrial base of the occupied areas was destroyed, a total of 134 billion francs of goods and property were lost in the war, and nearly 1.5 million people died in the war, an average of 1 in 10 French people died on the front line.

Despite France's heavy losses in the war and the devastation of its richest parts of the north and northeast, its post-war recovery efforts were fruitful. Relying on German war reparations and foreign technology, France invested $8 billion to repair mines, rebuild factories, public buildings, shops and homes, build railways and roads, dredge rivers, fill thousands of miles of trenches, and the entire restoration project ended in 1924.

Subsequently, France ushered in a period of economic development. In 1919, French industrial production was only 57% of the 1913 level, in 1924 it was 9% higher than in 1913, in 1926 it soared to 126% of the 1913 level, 1929 was the peak of the French economy, in 1930 the momentum slowed down, but industrial production was still 140% of the 1913 level.

1. Recovering Alsace and Lorraine, lost for the second time (cut out in 1940);

2. Occupy the Saarland of Germany for 15 years (forced to return to West Germany in July 1959), and at the same time obtain 25 years of ownership and profit from the Salvain Coal Mine. At the same time, it would be possible to obtain one-third of the production of all coal mines in the Saarland, and from 1962 West Germany would have to deliver 1.2 million tons of coal annually to France;

3. Germany agreed with France to build the Moselle Canal and to make a financial contribution of not less than two-thirds to its construction;

4. Although France's request for the partition of the German Rhineland region was rejected by the United States, the Soviet Union and Britain, France was in principle allowed to completely dismantle all industrial equipment and transportation facilities in the German-occupied areas as France's war losses.

Received financial compensation and liberation from Germany.

Restored to the country and became one of the five victorious powers.