France occupied germany’s coal-rich ruhr valley in 1923
a. because germany had fallen behind in reparations.
b. because the french wanted to acquire more land.
c. to protest the policies of adolf hitler.
d. to force striking german miners back to work.

workers of lowell mills were greatly benefited for the waltham type of work which was more a paternalist kind, trying to protect the integrity of this little girls coming from small farmers and providing an adequate place of work, this in an effort to avoid the issues of bad place conditions and immorality that the people in bigger industrialized cities of great britain were experimenting.

this means that germany had to pay the allied countries. reparations are/is essentially payment for something that they have done wrong, so after ww1, germany was forced to pay reparations so they could replenish the allied countries resources' that they had lost during the war.