> "anglo cultures" already had quite a lead before WW2, hard to miss that the previous superpower was the British Empire.
I think you're trying too hard to muddy the waters by creating a definition for "anglo" that does not match reality or any use of the term.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Americans
Even within "European Americans", nearly half has an ethnic origin that is classified as German, not English.
Another important aspect is immigration and naturalization. The bulk of high-skilled R&D specialists who turned the US into the technological powerhouse that it is aren't exactly Mayflower descendants. It's immigrants and first- and second-generation. So it's very hard to argue about "Anglo" thins with the extreme reliance on immigration and descendent of immigrants to play the roles that made all this progress possible.