My teachers barely mentioned it, although I'm not surprised seeing as USA did little. We usually talk about American revolution, Texas/USA war with Mexico, and ACW. Very little WW1, WW2, and no Napoleonic Wars.
Nationalism all the way.
'Cos all that happened outside of the USA, just ain't important.
Seriously, this attitude is freaking annoying. "Oh, well because it happened outside of the US and they don't talk about it in a US history class it must not be important because it's not 'MERICA!!!!!".
In my AP US History Course we had to cover 300 years of history in about 8 months, with 4 classes a week, at about 50 minutes a class. That doesn't include test days, and days off. When the focus of the class is US History, do you REALLY expect to talk about every little thing that goes on in the world? No. It's impossible. We had to go indepth into a lot of this stuff, remembering a lot of laws, senators, representatives, factions, movements, etc...
To put it in perspective, we spent about 2 days on the US Civil War. (So more or less 100 minutes). Same for WWI. Civil Rights was 2 days, Vietnam 1. Even then we had no time to go into battles and stuff because there was so much more we had to cover.
Glad though in my AP Euro class this year we're going to be spending a good chunk of time on WWI, and I actually asked my teacher today if we're going to be doing an "expert day" on WWI (It's where we get a topic and get to be experts on it, since my specialty is WWI, I had to ask. And we are! You can switch topics with other groups and such as well
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After that we watched this horrible 1979 version of "All quite on the western front". Thats all we did.
Do you have no appreciation of Richard Thomas! Shamefur Dispray. Though, I have a deep love of the orignal as well. But the book will forever be my favorite. Though, the 1979 TV Movie version follows the events as the book did them better. More flashback type things.
Pfff. A war between states is not a war for freedom. A civil war is a war for freedom.
The American civil war is sometimes referred to as the War between the States...
Because the US is made up of States?
It's not really entertaining for some people to play a game where you sit in a trench for months waiting for the enemy to attack, while the enemy does the same thing, called a stalemate.
It's not really entertaining to play a game where you sit in a truck or boat, or whatever for a while than make camp.
Oh right, we skip to the action parts of the war. There was a lot to The First World War. The initial, grandiose Conventional phase, the Trench Era (new tactics such as raiding were developed here), and even mobility at the end.
Can't wait for The Trench: 1916, going to be a fantastic FPS.
