Many public high schools simply stop teaching history after they finish WWII. College courses might discuss it, but I was never explicitly taught anything regarding Vietnam (or even the Korean War, for that matter).
The reason we were not taught anything post WWII was that it was too contemporary, too "political"
Here our history classes refused to go any further than 2005, for a kind of similar (but in effect very different) reason, in that it would become too political - i.e. that it would directly overlap with the politics curriculum and that theres no reason to teach it twice.
I guess this might explain the level of Takes™ you can hear from americans online...
Many public high schools simply stop teaching history after they finish WWII. College courses might discuss it, but I was never explicitly taught anything regarding Vietnam (or even the Korean War, for that matter).
The reason we were not taught anything post WWII was that it was too contemporary, too "political"
:agony-consuming: WWII oof
Here our history classes refused to go any further than 2005, for a kind of similar (but in effect very different) reason, in that it would become too political - i.e. that it would directly overlap with the politics curriculum and that theres no reason to teach it twice.
I guess this might explain the level of Takes™ you can hear from americans online...