y lending. US industry had doubled since the pre-war years and the relative advantages the US economy possessed were overwhelming.
             The US had a strangle-hold on the world market, holding a majority of the world's investment capital. Opening the national economies to unfettered international trade provided an outlet for the massive US export capacity and unlimited access to raw materials. American economic dominance was supported further with its advanced military that was capable of global power-projection, and of course the US was the only nation in the immediate post-war years to possess
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