France resumed its industrial progress, quickly paid off its enormous war-reparations debt to Germany, and expanded its overseas empire in North and West Africa and Indochina.
The French empire became the fastest-growing empire at the time.
mnli hypothesis: The French empire became the fastest-growing empire at the time. premise: France resumed its industrial progress, quickly paid off its enormous war-reparations debt to Germany, and expanded its overseas empire in North and West Africa and Indochina.