Many other countries have struggled to reconcile their differences after lesser conflicts, so what events and policies made peace among us something we most take for granted?
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While a lot of answers here make sense there’s another aspect I don’t see being mentioned. No land ownership disputes.
The US doesn’t share any land borders with Germany, Italy, or Japan. It wasn’t in a position to move the borders and take over the land. (With the exception of isolated bits of land hosting military bases.) That meant there were no real land ownership grudges – those tend to last multiple generations.
Don’t get me wrong, there were lots and lots of “you have to move this border” changes as a result of WW2, especially with the borders of Poland. But the key thing is that from the US point of view, those border moves were between third-party countries, with the US not being the country gaining the land, and many of them were brokered by multiple nations.
“The US wasn’t the country that gained the land” is a major part of discussing why there wasn’t a lot of generational lasting anger toward the US over it.
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