How WWII Taught In School Today

I dont know where some of my friends learn it..... one guy thought Winston Churchill was still the Prime Minister of Britain, another thought his Grandpa fought in Belgum the whole war, I tried asking if he was thinking WW1, he told me I was wrong and that the allies didnt leave Belgum.

 

I do have a good history teacher..... but there is only 1 good one. One of my teacher told me that the British killed Jews to try and make pease with Germany, so i told her she was wrong and she gave me a detention for answering back. Most teacher will tell students on how evil the germans are how they bombed us and they killed hundreds of inosent people in England but wont tell them much about us bombing them. Destroying dams that killed hundreds. They say that Japan and Germany where compleatly evil.... yet we dropped 2 nukes on Japand that flattend 2 hole citys! Most teacher no f*** all, lol.

[ 13. July 2003, 11:41 PM: Message edited by: Ron ]

 

Perhaps devote more time to your English classes?

No.9

 

The kids in the Alternative school at my High School learned about WW2 by playing Battlefield 1942.

 

The kids in the Alternative school at my High School learned about WW2 by playing Battlefield 1942. </font>[/QUOTE]Lucky Bastards, I just use that to Study.


In all honesty though, i have Aced Tests, Quizes, and entire COURSES based on things i have only learned in Computer games

CvM

 

>When he tried to say that the Japanese Entered >WW2 because they attacked Vietnam and France >Declared War on them. Then he said the Japanese >got caught up in a guerilla war in Indochina.

I don't know... there is a case to be made that he is correct.

It was the Japanese entry into Indochina which casused the United States to embargo most kinds of fuel, all steel and coal and several other critical resources.

Deprived of these resources (in particular oil and AvGas), the Japanese immediatly started designing military plans to obtain fuel. Since the Northrn option had been closed by the realities of the August 1939 nazi-Soviet pact, the only real option left was the Dutch east Indies.

Most of the planners felt that taking this island would cause the US to declare war, and if a war with the US was inevitable, then they decided on a plan of attrition attackng the US navy as it crossed the Pacific, then abandoned that for a first strike plan against Hawaii.

Up until the invasion of Indochina and the full embargo, war was preventable. Following that it was unavoidable, all that was left was what form it would take. So while the US-Japan war did not oficially start until Dec. 7th, the date at which it became inevitable was the japanese invasion of French IndoChina.

 

I dont know Vermillion, you see his point was that Japan entered the war for the sold purpose of attacking Frace. Which is obviously not the case.


CvM

 

Ah, well than that is not accurate then. To Japan, the ,Liberation' of French indo-China was all part oftheir greater war to establish the Greater East Asian co-prosperity Sphere. They were already involved in a war on the continent of Asia, and Vietnam would not even be the last of their Asian conquests before pearl harbour...

Japan could not care less about France, apart from its sudden weakness due to its fall to German forces in may-June 1940.

 

This is a great article about the impact a personal visit to a World War Two battlefield had one kid:

The News-Sentinel, Visit to Normandy's WWII battlefields changes teenager's life, Aug. 04, 2003

[ 12. August 2003, 06:02 AM: Message edited by: Crapgame ]

 

I got interested in WW2 the same way Alex did, when I visited Normandy in 1993, since then I have collected and researched the battles. Is he on this forum? I really like to see more young people taking the hobby up

Regards
Phil

 

That's a good question Phil. I don't know if he is here, but I think he would realy enjoy this site.

[ 06. August 2003, 06:58 AM: Message edited by: Crapgame ]

 

Personally, I've always had good to excellent history teachers that were pretty enthusiastic about history themselves. Also the curriculum in Germany doesn't appear to be as tight as in the US or the UK. In the last years of school the teachers always asked the class what they wanted to learn, offering a choice of various alternatives.

 

Glad to see you back Andreas.

That is interesting about schools in Germany though--letting the students decide on what they feel like learning within reason?. Actually--I think it's a pretty good idea.

My brother is a Hignschool Teacher here in Texas. He teaches two courses. One on History and the other is a Computer English course. I think i'll bring that up to his attention and see what he thinks?

 

I think to a degree it is the same over here, what I mean is that when you reach GCSE's there is a range topics you can cover before your exams, so for example in my school we did Indian Independance, USA 1920-1980 and Russia 1905-1924, my brother did medecine through history and the rise of the Nazis. The thing is that rather than letting students decide, the teachers decide based on what is most convenient for them to teach. Basically this means that people learn what the teacher decided to teach them a year ago rather than what they are interested in, often this will be intended to make life easy for new teachers and so will cover whatever they were learning in his/her last year of university etc.