America pursued WWII deliberately to build a postwar world order it would lead

Evidence

It was a war that ended with the global triumph of American power. It ended with the need to convince the decolonizing world of the reality of the newest American decree: that the United States should take its place as leader of the free world. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 897 (#expands, via linked claim)

All of this was secured under the hegemonic umbrella of the United States’ financial and economic power backed by military domination. The Bretton Woods agreement of 1944 turned the dollar into the world’s reserve currency and tied the world’s economic development firmly into US fiscal and monetary policy. The United States acted as the world’s banker in return for an opening up of the world’s commodity and capital markets to the power of the large corporations. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 825 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Postwar US planners saw the war as empire-building and fused national with global security; Postwar America had to persuade a decolonizing world of its leadership — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 897; US financial-military hegemony structured the postwar Fordist world economy — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 825 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Postwar America had to persuade a decolonizing world of its leadership #expands (0.85) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 897
• US financial-military hegemony structured the postwar Fordist world economy #expands (0.80) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 825
• The United States planned its postwar base network before Pearl Harbor. #corroborates (0.75)
• Postwar US empire was legitimated through modernization theory and Orientalism #expands (0.72) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 256
• US post-war hegemony repurposed Orientalism and modernization theory to justify empire. #expands (0.72) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 28