<prompt> Translate the following text to EnglishUfaransa iliendelea na maendeleo yake ya viwanda, ikalipa haraka deni lake kubwa la kulipia uharibifu wa vita kwa Ujerumani, na kupanua milki yake ya ngambo ya bahari katika Afrika Kaskazini na Magharibi na Indochina.  <response>: 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. 