Dude, who even knows.
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"You know “we only make it up to WWI every year in (American) history class” is gonna start being weirder as time moves on and the period afterwards drops out of living memory" Idk usually I think people get to WW2 at minimum, and honestly usually atleast the 60s or 70s or so. I feel like a lot stop at or don't quite get to Reagan or so, but others maybe just barely get to Reagan/ the end of the cold war/ Clinton. Most of my history classes covered the Great Depression, New Deal, and WW2 minimum
I mean mine checked them off, and there was enough WW2 history floating around in the culture that you could sustain a cable channel on running documentaries, so you had a background sense of “what” if not “why” but past that my sense was just
- there just was a “depression”
- then FDR administered a “New Deal”
- then there just was a war
- (unspokenly, this was the foundation of the succeeding order… cuz)
Until at least like AP American History in 9th Grade
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kontextmaschine reblogged this from kontextmaschine and added: I mean in fairness to really make the "why" make sense for WWII your students need to have a reasonable sense of...