They did it by being better than anyone else at metalworking. They had a strong and developed iron industry and they traded a lot with other nations so they could amass large amounts of wealth. They also made textile out of cotton and had large amounts of gold, so it was easy for them to become dominant.
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Absolute monarchy
Anarchy
Commonwealth
Communist
Confederacy (Confederation)
Constitutional
Constitutional democracy
Constitutional monarchy
Democracy
Democratic republic
Dictatorship
Ecclesiastical
Emirate
Federal (Federation)
Federal republic
Islamic republic
Maoism
Marxism
Monarchy
Oligarchy
Parliamentary democracy
Parliamentary government (Cabinet-Parliamentary government)
Parliamentary monarchy
Presidential
Republic
Socialism
Theocracy
Totalitarian
In the US we are a republican form
Britain's victory in the Battle of Britain demonstrated the courage and resilience of the country's military and its people and allowed them to remain free from Nazi occupation. It also enabled the Americans to establish a base of operations in England to invade Normandy on D-Day in 1944.
The United States and Soviet Union reacted to the split nation of China by supporting superset state nationalist (United States) and by providing military, financial and technical aid to the communists or the Maoists (Soviet Union) though the provision by the Soviet Union did not last long.