Excuse my poor history knowledge, but the Europeans sailed here to find new lands, settled, and then after generations, they were overthrown by their descendants. The British empire still ruled around the world for centuries yet, the U.S. arguably is in a better state of economics, military, and such.
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Because, to put it bluntly, Europe and Britain got absolutely destroyed in WWII, to the point that basically everything used to make things had to be rebuilt afterwards.
The US, in comparison, had to rebuild one naval base in Hawaii, and had factories galore that had been built and used in the war effort, that could now be put to use making cars, tvs, these new-fangled computer systems, etc.
The US had a headstart at basically everything after WWII, and that was used to turn it from a big, but ultimately not only powerhouse country, into *the* powerhouse country. Until the USSR got nukes.
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