All the key people in CS, EE, and Physics needed to invent transistors where in America at the time.
Why? Mostly because America has true individual freedom and low taxes, unlike Europe.
Why? Mostly because America has true individual freedom and low taxes, unlike Europe.
So yes, it had something to do with WWII, but that's not the only reason.
For instance, Japan and South Korea were both equally devastated and yet they both managed to build world class technology industries in the aftermath.
You are stating that like this has been the state of things for a century. The dependence on American and Asian tech has been a gradual process, that accelerated in the 1990s and 2000s. Before that time, every European countries had their own tech industries able to compete with the tech giants (Nokia, Siemens, Grundig, Alcatel, Thomson, Olivetti, Philips, Ericsson, Amstrad and that's only citing a few of the ones that marked history forever, only in the field consumer electronics, a lot of them back in the day were competing but ended up fading away, and also others were everywhere in the tech industry before without being really exposed to consumers).
Chang came because of education and stayed because of communist oppression and lack of opportunity at home. As racist as Texas was at the time, it was still better than going back to China, which is why he stayed.
Andy Grove endured the Nazis in Europe and the was almost killed by the Communists in Europe. His mother was raped and hunted by both. Tell me again why he came for the taxes?