Post-war Japan was economically devastated which made it an ideal environment for black marketeering.

Thoroughly destroyed by war , it is economically devastated and ethnically divided.

Germany, humiliated and economically devastated by the Versailles Treaty, was fighting for its very existence.

"Newark is economically devastated as it is, and now we are putting all these people out on the street with no hope."

The war left the South economically devastated by military action, ruined infrastructure, and exhausted resources.

Antwerp was economically devastated by the attack.

Many never returned, and the counties were economically devastated for years.

Many never returned, and the affected counties were economically devastated for years after the end of the war.

The South remained economically devastated; its economy became increasingly tied to cotton and tobacco production, which suffered low prices.

The USA was the only world power not economically devastated by the fighting.