• SupraMario@lemmy.world
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      The US was already a powerful nation preWWII, it’s why we joined ww1 and it’s why we had been expanding for decades prior to this. 1898 is the agreed upon time when it was already powerful and what could be considered a superpower.

      https://education.cfr.org/learn/reading/how-did-united-states-become-global-power

      It’s not hard to understand this, in your hands you have basically the world’s entire knowledge and history. Try and read for once.

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        At the close of World War II—the deadliest conflict in human history—British Prime Minister Winston Churchill declared that the United States stood “at the summit of the world.”

        Your own source all but says post-WW2 is when the U.S. became a world superpower.

        Learn how domestic expansion and three wars—the Spanish-American War, World War I, and World War II—transformed the United States’ standing in the world.

        There’s also the summary at the very top

        I could find more, but it’s pretty well agreed upon that post-WW2 was when the U.S. became a world superpower.

        Hell, the article you linked to said the U.S. enacted an isolationist policy post-WW1.

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          What part of the spanish-american war are you not getting? The US was already a powerhouse at that point. It’s why it’s in the article. WW2 just made us become the world police.