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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At the start of WWII, you had three anti-Communist, white supremacist states go to war with each other (France, UK and Germany). Once the US joined the party we had another one of the same (Nazi Germany wanted to model their Lebensraum after US Jim Crow laws etc).
It was only due to Nazi hyper-aggression that these states came into conflict with each other (all three Western Allies tried to forestall war as long as possible). So they had a lot in common with Germany after the war, especially after they shaved off a superficial layer of Nazism from the German state.
This is in contrast with the Western Allied relation to the USSR and the PRC, where the ideological differences ran deep, and the wartime partnership was a temporary alliance of convenience. In Japan and Germany the wartime states were rebuilt by the US as a bulwark against communism.
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