Not only did they lose the two World Wars, they were directly responsible for the evilest person to ever govern in this part of the world. How did they go from losing WW1, economy collapsing, then losing another World War, to then become one of the world’s biggest economies?
Similar question for Japan, although they “only” lost one.
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As others have already responded, the US spent a lot of resources post WW2 to rebuild those countries into modern capitalist democracies, and that was a big part of it.
But also worth noting that while those countries did suffer a lot of losses of people and infrastructure during those world wars, they were both reasonably advanced and industrialized countries going into WW2, and it’s not like they lost all of that knowledge during the war.
They still had a lot of engineers, scientists, etc. to help with rebuilding. They had a reasonably well educated workforce to get their economy moving again, especially with all of the help they got from the US.
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