The 1968 uprisings, which spread throughout the West, took a violent form, particularly in Italy, Germany, and Japan. According to scholar Jared Diamond, this may have been due to the new generation’s rejection of the culture of their elders, who had supported the Nazi-Fascist regimes of the Axis. This, however, occurred less violently in the United States (a country typically more violent than Europe), since in the United States, the elders’ generation was still the Greatest Generation, the victors of World War II.
