Explain how English has become a lingua franca for the world

By electing English as the world language, the history sentenced monolingualism to become the illiteracy of the coming future. But how did it happen?

As a result of the Industrial Revolution, the British economic predominance in the 19th century paved the way for a colonialism of large geographical reach that spread the English language in the world.

More importantly, the strong political and military predominance of the U.S. after World War II paved the way for a substantial economic and cultural influence that displaced French from the sphere of diplomacy and fixed English as the standard for international communication.

THE PRESENT SCENE

Today's search for information and need for global communication have already promoted English from being the language of the American, the British, the Irish, the Australian, the New Zealand, the Canadian, the Caribbean, and the South African peoples to being the international language. While p