In my own history classes at school (in UK) we got nowhere near any 20th century events...school covered stuff like Spanish Armada, Napoleonic Wars. The American War of Independence was regarded as a fairly recent event...
I suppose covering Second World War In school might have been regarded as unnecessary...it was recent enough that most people had family that had fought, and events were well covered in tv documentaries.
The Trump Ad with the MiGs, those are also Russian troops based on the guns and equipment.
Maybe John Bolton will disagree?
There came a time when the Old Gods died! The Brave died with the Cunning! The Noble perished locked in battle with unleashed Evil! It was the last day for them! An ancient era was passing in fiery holocaust!
I don't remember when it started, but we spent a lot of time learning about the Holocaust.
We learned about the Holocaust through our Temple. It was not taught in public school in Florida. They spent a lot of time on the Civil War though, with talk about "States Rights".
There came a time when the Old Gods died! The Brave died with the Cunning! The Noble perished locked in battle with unleashed Evil! It was the last day for them! An ancient era was passing in fiery holocaust!
I learned about the Holocaust in fourth grade. We even watched the tv mini-series starring Meryl Streep. Of course, we also learned about it in Hebrew School. Maybe because there's such a large Jewish population in Brooklyn, where I went to school, there was a demand for it to be taught as early as kids could handle it.
Watching television is not an activity.
I have little memory of excatly what I was taught in school, just a few things here aand there. Everything that was important I learned on my own or in college.
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They taught us about the Holocaust when I was in high school during the 90s, even had a survivor speak to us. They barely touched the Japanese American camps though, except an English teacher who had us read a memoir.
I remember it being taught(also Florida public school) but as kind of a foot note, like the majority of my last history class in high school being WW2 and maaaaybe spending a day or two talking about Anne Frank and that being about it on the Holocaust itself, mostly just about the battles themselves and Nagasaki/Hiroshima. WW2 was kind of the cut off point to for the most modern stuff we covered, maybe some very very condensed civil rights movement and Vietnam stuff at the end but absolutely nothing on anything past that(graduated in 2009 for reference).
When I was in school, Vietnam wasn't history yet.
There came a time when the Old Gods died! The Brave died with the Cunning! The Noble perished locked in battle with unleashed Evil! It was the last day for them! An ancient era was passing in fiery holocaust!