Early in the 20th century, three powers were vying for economic supremacy. The United States took over leadership in the Anglo-Saxon world from Britain. Newly unified Germany was also an economic giant, but it was, as the saying goes, too big for Europe and too small for the world. The rest of the world fought two wars to contain it, and by the end of the 20th century most German lands and the German sphere of influence in Central Europe became part of the U.S.-dominated West.
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