Postwar America had to persuade a decolonizing world of its leadership

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

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reading on postwar propaganda/persuasion and the Cold War framing of US racial policy as soft-power liability. — connects to: Postwar global economic integration was framed as requiring Western moral transformation; The US distinguished its postwar dominance from old colonialism as benevolent supremacy — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 245; Postwar US planners saw the war as empire-building and fused national with global security (+2 more)