早在二战期间,随着美国力量的增长,“美国将领导世界”的舆论就已基嚣尘上。1941年初,美国《时代》、《生活》周刊发行人亨利·卢斯的小册子《美国的世纪》曾轰动一时。他宣扬“二十世纪是美国的世纪”,鼓吹现在正是“向世界施加我们全部的影响力量的大好时刻”。1942年评论家麦科马克在《美国和世界统治》一书中阐述了以“美国世界”代替“英国世界”的历史公式,认为“随着英国在世界上统治地位的削弱,美国的统治地位应当扩大”。战争结束后,美国政府已俨然以世界的领导者自居了。1945年12月29日杜鲁门在国会咨文中声称:“胜利已使美国人民有经常 As early as during World War II, with the growth of U.S. forces, the public opinion that “the United States will lead the world” would have been on the verge of impending clashes. At the beginning of 1941, a booklet entitled “The United States of America” ​​by Henry Luss, the publisher of The Times and Life Weekly magazine, was a sensation for a while. He preached that “the twentieth century is the century of the United States,” advocating that it is “a great moment for exerting all our influence on the world.” In 1942, by commentator McCormack, in his book The Dominance of the United States and the World, set forth the historical formula of replacing “the British world” with “the American world,” arguing that “as the British dominance in the world weakened, the dominance of the United States Should be expanded. ” After the war, the U.S. government has assumed itself as a world leader. On December 29, 1945, Truman claimed in the congressional advisory: "Victory has made the American people have regular