1h 34min, oct 9, 1945 y - USA: A superpower
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- it manufactured ~50% of the world’s industrial production
- two-thirds of the world’s gold reserve was by then American
- until 1949, it was the only country with the A-bomb
- the U.S. dollar became the standard currency for the exchange rate (Bretton Woods system, 1944)
- Their decisive intervention (normandy) in the war gives them a great prestige
- its “American way of life” was serving as a political, economic, and cultural model.
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