In my experience, the only things that were significantly covered past that were: The Holocaust (I read maybe near 10 books on the subject, far more than on any other topic), a very white-washed version of the civil rights movement where we really only talked vaguely about segregation and MLK Jr., and 9/11.
Yeah the amount of Holocaust content covered in my k-12 definitely lends credence to the theory that it is a concerted effort to portray it as the most horrendous genocide ever and exceptionally evil thus tying into the absurd narrative that Israel needs to exist and was a product of the Holocaust and that the US was the hero of WW2.
In my experience, the only things that were significantly covered past that were: The Holocaust (I read maybe near 10 books on the subject, far more than on any other topic), a very white-washed version of the civil rights movement where we really only talked vaguely about segregation and MLK Jr., and 9/11.
Yeah the amount of Holocaust content covered in my k-12 definitely lends credence to the theory that it is a concerted effort to portray it as the most horrendous genocide ever and exceptionally evil thus tying into the absurd narrative that Israel needs to exist and was a product of the Holocaust and that the US was the hero of WW2.