It also signaled the collapse of the European empires and the birth of an American superpower that promised to dedicate its foreign policy to decolonization, democracy, and human rights, rather than its own imperial prestige.
The term superpower was coined in 1944 to describe the anticipated world order that would emerge after the war. Within weeks of D-Day, the British found themselves suddenly and irrevocably overruled by their former colony.
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