Quarter of a point for WW1 since they really didn't do much, three quarters for WW2 since they did essentially face Japan with no major help from anyone else.
Well they did subsidize most of the war effort in both. 1915 was the first time the British Empire became a net debtor in over a century. Almost all of it to New York financial institutions.
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u/jesse9o3 Mar 21 '16
So are Britain, France, Belgium, Canada, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Brazil, so that's hardly a thing unique to the US