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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]World history here also doesn't teach about the violence that the Koreans inflicted on to Vietnamese women during the Vietnam war.

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Point being, there is not enough time to teach all the details of everything that went on, whether you deem some more worthy of notice or not.
Given the founding of this country, obviously the US is going to focus more on its own country's history and US/European history compared to things that have happened elsewhere in the world.[/quote]

There the point. US role in Asia was massive and more important to defeating the Japanese than the importance of the US in defeating the Nazis. And the Japanese were just as bad, if not worse than the Nazis in many ways. War in Asia is fundamental to US history and we had a very committed people like General Chennault who dedicated his life and forces to protecting China.[/quote]

The major difference is that we didn't put Hirohito on trial and almost immediately called the Japanese an ally. Germany was divided and given governments that did everything possible to distance themselves from the Nazis. Japanese atrocities were down played and Nazi atrocities were highlighted [/quote]

The US didn't execute Hirohito as they did other members of the Japanese government because they deemed him the most useful for carrying out fundamental governmental change after occupation. Also they almost immediately needed Japan as an ally bc of the cold war that broke out soon after WWII. They didn't just let Japan off the hook for some mystical benevolent reason.[/quote]

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