Examples Of Hegemony

Hegemony, a process by which the dominant power, known as the hegemon, in a personal, political, economic, or social relationship retains its dominance by absorbing the resistance or opposition. The people or groups standing against it and reshaping that resistance and opposition into something that sustains the hegemon’s dominant power. This process became popular after World War II. An example of a group in which opposed a dominant power were the America First Committee. Another example was after World War II when the United States became the hegemon of the international economy.
The America First Committee’s primary objective was to keep the United States out of the European war; they were an isolationist committee. Their principles stated: our first duty is to keep America out of war, we must keep our naval convoys and merchant vessels on this side of the Atlantic, we must build a defense so strong that no foreign nation can invade, and lastly, we should feed and clothe the suffering and needy people of England. Communists, Nazis, and fascists were declared ineligible for membership. The three most important groups pressing the United States into war were the British, the Jews, and Roosevelt Administration. The fall of this committee
It emerged from that war as the dominant economic, political, and technological power. The United States finished the war with the greatest naval command of battle ever seen. On December 7th, 1941, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor causing thousands of Americans to die. This authorized Roosevelt to send the atom bomb to Japan. The purpose for the United States to use the bomb was to intimidate all the other nations that the United States was also as powerful as them. After the United States bombed Japan, the Japanese had to surrender. Because of this act, the hegemon, the United States gained more power than it already