History Main / AmericaTakesOverTheWorld

Although not required, OppressiveStatesOfAmerica can easily overlap with this trope for obvious reasons. The EvilStatesOfAmerica also often combines elements of both.

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'''s [[JustBeforeTheEnd pre-War]] backstory has Europe and the USSR being rendered weak clients of the U.S. in the lead up to a global energy crisis that sees everyone but the U.S. and China effectively collapsing. This is followed by the U.S. annexing Canada and occupying Mexico, China occupying several Asian countries and the Russian Far East, and eventually a Sino-American War. Due to a combination of superior technology (e.g. PoweredArmor) and greater economic strength,[[note]]It was noted in the military terminals in the military base in ''2'' that the Chinese were critically low on fuel while the U.S. was still comfortable.[[/note]] the war culminates in the U.S. successfully invading mainland China in retribution for their invasion of Alaska and laying siege to Beijing, effectively leaving America as the sole hyperpower. [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt For about a day.]]

Even in spite of all this, however, America still remains the world's preeminent military, economic, and cultural force, accounting for 25% of world GDP and 40% of world military spending on their own. The US' allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the Organization of American States, as well as major non-NATO allies like UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}, UsefulNotes/{{Australia}}, UsefulNotes/SouthKorea, UsefulNotes/SaudiArabia, and UsefulNotes/{{Israel}}, comprise the lion's share of world power; if they were collectively viewed as an American empire (as critics of American foreign policy often proclaim it to be), then the United States would currently be in possession of the greatest empire that history has ever known, with 60%+ of world GDP and the vast majority of the world's intellectual capital and industrial capacity (to wit, South Korea alone has a larger economy than Russia). The US dollar is the world's reserve currency, with only the euro as a serious competitor (and even then, it is a distant second). Its military can deploy hundreds of thousands of soldiers supported by carrier-borne aircraft to any corner of the globe on short notice and doesn't even need a single American soldier on the ground to destroy minor powers, as interventions in Iraq, Syria, Serbia, and Libya have demonstrated. Its economy [[https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/01/02/the-fastest-growers-and-biggest-shrinkers-of-2019 still prospers]] even as most other developed countries stagnate and rapidly growing middle income economies (like China) begin to slow. [[EaglelandOsmosis American food, films, TV series, fashion and pop music can be found on every continent]], and its celebrities are renowned throughout the world, to the point where both supporters and critics of the US have cited its 'soft power' (or, alternatively, 'cultural imperialism') as one of its greatest tools and weapons in maintaining its alliances. The only nations that are openly antagonistic to the US (as opposed to frenemies like Russia and China) are mostly so-called "rogue states" with few friends of any kind in the world, like UsefulNotes/{{Iran}}, UsefulNotes/NorthKorea, UsefulNotes/{{Syria}} and UsefulNotes/{{Libya}} (before UsefulNotes/TheArabSpring).

* ''Iron Clads'' by Creator/AdrianTchaikovsky has the US in the process of this. They had annexed Canada and the rest of the American continent and purchased a United Kingdom that had been beggared by Brexit. The UK is then used as a giant brothel and beachhead into invading Europe. The US here is very much the EvilStatesOfAmerica as it became a plutocracy run by various MegaCorp and the [[WarriorPrince warring scions of these corporate aristocrats]] while the Federal gov't is just there to facilitate the enlistment of impoverished CannonFodder and deck them in 2nd-hand kit.

* ''Iron Clads'' by Creator/AdrianTchaikovsky has the US in the process of this. They had annexed Canada and the rest of the American continent and purchased a United Kingdom that had been beggared by Brexit. The UK is then used as a giant brotherl and beachhead into invading Europe. The US here is very much the EvilStatesOfAmerica as it became a plutocracy run by various MegaCorp and the [[WarriorPrince warring scions of these corporate aristocrats]] while the Federal gov't is just there to facilitate the enlistment of impoverished CannonFodder and deck them in 2nd-hand kit.

* ''Literature/TheSunEater'' has the background event the US take over the world through A.I. overlords in our far future (and the current humanity's distant past). It's very much a case of the EvilStatesOfAmerica as the A.I. proceeds to take over the human domains and reduce almost the entire population of humanity into cancer blobs. Until the British GodEmperor fought back...

* Implied in ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyInfiniteWarfare''. While the United Nations Space Alliance is technically a coalition of different nations, the behavior that non-Americans exhibit seem suspiciously American, and all lack any traces of cultural diversity at all. They use American military jargon; UNSA Admiral Raines keeps an American flag in his office; the Lebanese Lt. Salter speaks English with an American accent; and even Kashima (a Canadian) speaks of receiving a Purple Heart (an ''American'' military decoration) after being wounded.

* Implied in ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyInfiniteWarfare''. While the United Nations Space Alliance is technically a coalition of different nations, the behavior that non-Americans exhibit seem suspiciously American, and all lack any traces of cultural diversity at all. They use American military jargon; UNSA Admiral Raines keeps an American flag in his office; the Lebanese Lt. Salter speaks English with an American accent; and even Kashima (a Canadian) speaks of receiving a Purple Heart (an American military decoration) after being wounded.