>>101046326Okay, like, I can’t be the only one who had those weirdly American-centric history books during jr high, right?
It goes throughout the history of the world just fine, it was understandable they’d dedicate one chapter to the American revolution and two chapters to the Civil War, but the early years of World War 1 had a single chapter dedicated to it, and then an entirely new chapter commuted to the American involvement in WW1.
They’ve done the same thing with WW2. They gave the basics on what helped Nazi Germany rise in power, skimmed lightly on the Eastern Front that it was never taught to me that there were partisans or that Germany and Italy invaded Greece, and gave a summary about the British and French’s actions prior to the US joining the war. Then, an entirely new chapter came after it, and it was huge. It was about the American army’s actions in the European and Pacific Theaters, and all I got told about the Eastern Front in that chapter is that the Soviets reached Berlin first. That’s it.
I should also mention that the next chapter was the Vietnam War, the wars going on in Asia and the Middle-East and Africa and Latin America divided into sections for each region, and then the Cold War. Where was the Korean War? It was literally summarized into 3-4 sentences as a footnote in the Vietnam War chapter.
The final chapter was basically hailing America and the United Nations as bastions of world peace after the USSR’s collapse, the tragedy of 9/11, and the “heroic” escapades of the War on Terror in Iraq and Afghanistan.
This is blatantly propaganda-tier ‘education’.
