Under the Articles of Confederation, the national government was weak because

The weakness of the Articles of Confederation was that Congress was not strong enough to enforce laws or raise taxes, making it difficult for the new nation to repay their debts from the Revolutionary War. There was no executive and no judiciary, two of the three branches of government we have today to act as a system of checks and balances.

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b. florence

d. milan

if you're talking about (ww2) they went bankrupt and their currency was worth nothing

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