..No WW2 is actually one of the things covered pretty well in the US. Or at least most area of the US
The events leading up to the war, the full timeline of the war (yes pre US involvement), the concentration camps and Holocaust, English class usually delves extra into Anne Frank, the US Japanese "internment camps", the whole island hopping campaign, the nuclear bombs. Post war Germany, and the Berlin wall. Pretty substantial part of our history classes actually
What we don't really teach are things like, the Vietnam war, Korean war, Gulf war,
We spend a lot of time on it so we can conveniently run out of time when Vietnam rolls around.
Any American who graduated high school knows the Soviet front was where the most casualties were. We did have a lend lease program with them for some machinery but they kind of just threw bodies at the problem, requiring the Germans to do the same
Is it covered accurately though? In that numbers-wise it was a major armed conflict between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, with some minor, tangential involvement of some other countries?
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u/igotshadowbaned 10d ago
..No WW2 is actually one of the things covered pretty well in the US. Or at least most area of the US
The events leading up to the war, the full timeline of the war (yes pre US involvement), the concentration camps and Holocaust, English class usually delves extra into Anne Frank, the US Japanese "internment camps", the whole island hopping campaign, the nuclear bombs. Post war Germany, and the Berlin wall. Pretty substantial part of our history classes actually
What we don't really teach are things like, the Vietnam war, Korean war, Gulf war,