What was the Economic Devastation Break Point for World War One?

[High Plains Drifter]

The Entente Powers economically lasted through World War One in large part through US loans. Then after the war, they were too economically tired and indebted to fully return their economies to what they had been before the war.

The German economy fell apart by the end of the war.

The Russians had a revolution.


What is the maximum length of time World War One could have lasted without causing the economic ruin and bankruptcy of the pre-war economic system in place in Europe?

 

[Deleted member 1487]

The Entente Powers economically lasted through World War One in large part through US loans. Then after the war, they were too economically tired and indebted to fully return their economies to what they had been before the war.

The German economy fell apart by the end of the war.

The Russians had a revolution.


What is the maximum length of time World War One could have lasted without causing the economic ruin and bankruptcy of the pre-war economic system in place in Europe?

Late 1916.