I'm from the same era and I remember asking my HS History teacher why we spent so much time on the Ming, Song and Tang dynasties (memorizing all the names and dates for months) but never touched WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam or the Cuban Missile Crisis. She didn't have a good answer back then and didn't seem to question the curriculum.
I'm from the same era and I remember asking my HS History teacher why we spent so much time on the Ming, Song and Tang dynasties (memorizing all the names and dates for months) but never touched WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam or the Cuban Missile Crisis. She didn't have a good answer back then and didn't seem to question the curriculum.
When communists kill, the media and history books look the other way.