Contrary to popular belief about World War II which has this idealistic vision of Britain's ally America coming to rescue Great Britain and help her advance to her most glorious hour America in fact in the long run during World War II proved to be far more an opponent rather than an ally for Great Britain. During the Lend-Lease Agreement FDR ordered the British to give him all the British assets which included their gold reserves. FDR in fact shook Britain down for every dime during her darkest hour and prospered on Britain's misfortune. While Churchill had this glowing thought of a "special relationship" between the two English-speaking peoples and that the British would be Greeks to Americans as the Romans America instead used World War II to have both Germany and Britain both exhaust themselves so that America would come in and rule the world. Here is a British entry on this very topic:
"The Second World War saw the final chapter in the unreciprocated British belief in a 'special relationship' between Britain and the United States...From 1940 to the end of the Second World War and after it was America not Russia which was to consitute that lurking menace to British interets which Churchill...failed to perceive."
After the war Britain would lose its empire, sink into socialism, have to rely on Marshall Aid assistance and cede the decisions of the world, once given only to the English, to the Americans.
Again another British writer AJP Taylor: "The war gave FDR, if one can read his devious mind, a way to see both Britain and Germany wear eachother down. Then America would step in to rule the world."