This is a question has been bothering me as someone who’s country was colonized by the British Empire. We were taught about it in schools and how it lost power over time but never how the USA came to take its place especially over such a short compared to the British Empire.
Kind of ignoring the Soviets there in terms of “prizing countries out of the hands of fascists” but they were still fighting on the merits of US loans for most of the war so same difference.