Because Americans used willing suspension of disbelief to transition from a nation purely interested in itself to a nation interested in the entire world. When

Because Americans used willing suspension of disbelief to transition from a nation purely interested in itself to a nation interested in the entire world. When the music stopped in August, 1945, guess who was most widely deployed, had the people and wherewithal to lead? Guess whose closest partner - the UK - was wholesale getting out of the Empire business? Disregard the industrial Golem we had. We have entire cable channels dedicated at least partly to rerunning propaganda designed for consumption by Americans for WWII to his day.