I just want to echo your comment, because that's also exactly what happened to me. Learning about USA interventionism scratched an "itch", made me pause, reflect and conclude: "hey... The USA sucks... They tried to control my country. Why am I still defending them?"
For me, Socialism was inevitable. I owe that to this kind of entry-level facts about the USA that highlight the contradictions of Capitalism.
They will crank it all up to 1488%