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In 1954 the French had left Vietnam for good,
1954年，法國永久離開了越南
leaving the United States to pick up the pieces against the Communist Viet Minh, later to be known as the Vietcong.
留下美國收拾殘局，與共產黨越盟，也就是后來的越共作戰
The Suez Canal crisis of 1956 was prompted by a British and French invasion of modern Egypt,
1956年的蘇伊士運河危機是由英國和法國入侵現代埃及引起的
but President Eisenhower forced his NATO allies to offer Egypt to ceasefire anyway.
但艾森豪總統還是迫使北大西洋公約組織盟國停火
Great Britain and France had officially been demoted to the minor leagues for good.
英國和法國都被官方永久降級為小聯盟國
In segment 28c: The Iron Curtain Descends, the spread of World Communism is revisited, this time from a Western perspective.
28段第三部分，鐵幕降下，世界共產主義的再次傳播，這次是從西方的角度來看
The USSR felt the need to create an Eastern European client network for two reasons:
蘇聯覺得有必要創建一個東歐的附庸國網絡，原因有二
protection from Western invasions and a springboard for exporting Communism.
一來是阻止西方入侵，二來是作為出口共產主義的跳板
The Western Allies, on the other hand, were much fairer in their treatment of Japan and Germany.
另一方面，西方同盟國對待日本和德國要更為公平
West Germany was controlled by the US, Britain, and France, and enjoyed a much quicker recovery than did Communist East Germany.
西德當時受到美國，英國和法國的控制，比共產黨控制下的東德恢復速度更快
Japan was ruled by the proconsular figure General Douglas MacArthur, and also benefitted from moderate peace terms.
日本當時由地方總督道格拉斯·麥克阿瑟將軍統治，也受益于穩健和平
Yet the rise of Red China provoked a great deal of fear in America,
但是紅色中國的崛起還是引發了美國極大的恐慌
and a conservative backlash against the Truman administration brought to power another American general, Dwight David Eisenhower.
通過對杜魯門政權的保守抵抗，又一位美國將軍掌握了權力，也就是德懷特·戴維·艾森豪威爾
