User blog comment:Duchland/The Two Great Wars in one?/@comment-461469-20100729231618

We also have to look at the various nations economies, as they might not have been able to take the burden of Total War into 1919, and much less into the 1920's, without the collapse of all European power around the world, so the collapse of colonalism, and possibly the fall of nearly every major nation into smaller fiefdoms due to the stresses of the war.