Explain how the efforts of France and Belgium to secure reparations by seizing the Ruhr basin in 1923 led to the virtual economic collapse of Germany.

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The Answer is Answer would ideally include the following. France and Belgium seized the Ruhr basin in 1923 because Germany had defaulted on coal deliveries that were part of the war reparations agreement. In response, the German government encouraged its citizens in the territory to shut down industry and services. To support the German citizens in the Ruhr basin, to keep the closed industries afloat, and to continue to pay Germany's war debts, the German government printed trillions of marks, causing skyrocketing inflation and making the German currency practically worthless. At one point, a single U.S. dollar cost more than 4 trillion marks, which meant that people's life savings were wiped out, and the lives of many others were ruined.

Explain How the Efforts of France and Belgium to Secure