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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When/where did you learn about WWII?  I didn't learn (formally) until college when I took a class specifically about WWII.
My history classes in high school and earlier never went beyond reconstruction.  [/quote]

WOW. 
And I thought not having the Vietnam War EVER mentioned in my history classes in the 1980s was bad.[/quote]

I remember my AP US History class ran out of time when we got to WWII, so I had to wing anything past 1939 on the exam. I still got a 5, so it was all good.[/quote]

+1!! I'm pretty good re: the Civil War and Reconstruction, but barely know anything past WWII, except for those years I lived through myself.[/quote]

There are good arguments that recent history belongs in a current events class not in a history class. Until archives have been opened and there is distance from an event, it's hard to treat something as history. It wasn't until the 2000s that we learned that the attack on the Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin was completely made up as a pretext for war- that should change how we view the conflict and it would definitely render any previous textbook talking about the start of the war obsolete. [/quote]

When I was a kid in public school, I always remember running out of time just as we got to WW2. This even happened in APUSH back then so never got to modern history just the early 20th century.[/quote]

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