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America then, placed foreign policy on the back burner, along with military spending, which was a mistake.
當時的美國暫時擱置了外交政策，也擱置了軍事開支，這其實是個錯誤
Pulling America out of the Great Depression was important, it was job 1,
把美國拉出經濟大蕭條固然重要，是第一位的工作
but it was no excuse for America to stick its head in the sand over what was going on in Europe.
但是美國并沒有理由就此把頭埋在沙堆里不管歐洲發生的一切
By 1936, the losers of Versailles, Japan and Germany, were bidding for empires.
到1936年，《凡爾賽條約》中的戰敗國，日本和德國，已經在爭取得到帝國
Japan had conquered Manchuria, Germany had reconquered the Rhineland.
日本已經占領了滿洲里，德國也重新占領了萊茵蘭
Together with Italy, which had managed to conquer Ethiopia, they created the Anti-Comintern Pact.
和已經占領了埃塞俄比亞的意大利一起，簽訂了《反共產國際協定》
The Axis, as Germany, Japan and Italy was also called, was anti-communist mainly at name.
德國，日本和意大利一起被稱為軸心國，它們只是在名義上反共
What they really wanted was world domination.
真正的目的其實是想要主宰世界
The Spanish civil war of 1936 to 1939 became a proxy war between the Axis and the Soviet Union.
1936年到1939年的西班牙內戰成為軸心國和蘇聯之間的一場代理人戰爭
In 1938 Hitler pushed the envelope by annexing Austria along with pieces of Czechoslovakia.
1938年，希特勒挑戰極限，吞并了奧地利和捷克斯洛伐克的部分地方
Britain and France continued trying to buy time.
英國和法國還在繼續爭取時間
The USSR agonized over whether to side with the Axis or with the west.
而蘇聯還在為與軸心國，還是西方國家統一戰線而傷腦筋
Meanwhile the United States maintained strict neutrality.
同時，美國也嚴格保持中立
