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Originally Posted by sufue
I think it can be easy to have a gap in one's knowledge of history in the range of stuff that happened maybe 10 - 20 years before one hits high school or college. One was too young (or not even born) to remember events personally, and yet the events aren't historical enough to have been incorporated into standard textbooks.
For me, this period covers the events leading up to and the early years of the Vietnam War. I started noticing politics and wars and things towards the end of the war, but I was too young to remember the beginnings, and our high school history book ended shortly after the start of the Cold War.
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I agree. My history classes stopped after the Civil War. I've surmised that my teachers felt WWI and WWII were not history, but current events ... for them. Though I was studying around 1970 plus and minus a few. But I've had to learn about both world wars on my own. Vietnam & Korea I haven't even started to wonder about, yet.