So I would guess. Without tracking down my old school books to verify this and bearing in mind this was more than two decades ago, here's what I remember about the US making it into said school books:
- Columbus
- revolution/war of independence: it happened, plus opening quote. Also, Lafayette was there and Beaumarchais supplied arms, plus it explains the scene in Schiller's "Kabale und Liebe" which is an attack on the then common practice of German princelings to get money by selling regiments to their British cousins to use against the colonials, regiments without volunteers and with mostly drafted farmboys.
- Civil War: Happened. Gets a sentence or so in the time space that has a lot on the various wars Prussia conducted on its march to top dog among German principalities in the 1860s and the Franco-Prussian war leading to the Hohenzollern ruled empire on the one hand, and extensive discussion of Victorian Britain as a source of literature and colonial power on the other.
- WWI: late American participation in same noted in half a sentence. Obvious emphasis on senseless slaughter in Europe, but there's also a lot about the build up towards the Russian Revolution and the Russian Revolution itself, which gets as much space as what was going on in late and post war Germany.
- Depression: the US finally gets more than a sentence. Though I still got most of my US history during that time from other sources, but I seem to recall an entire page on the big crash and how depression era America did in comparison to what was happening over here.
- WW II: the US gets as much space as Russia and England do in terms of the military side, but naturally the Third Reich and the full horror of same got most space in the lessons.
- Post War: we didn't get that far in school. I think the last event covered other than the Nuremberg Trials was Marshall Plan and the Berlin air supply in 1947. In history class, at least. We did the development of our constitution and the GDR's in social education.
I'll check out the Adams miniseries when I get the chance and will review, promise!
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Date: 2012-01-29 08:36 pm (UTC)- Columbus
- revolution/war of independence: it happened, plus opening quote. Also, Lafayette was there and Beaumarchais supplied arms, plus it explains the scene in Schiller's "Kabale und Liebe" which is an attack on the then common practice of German princelings to get money by selling regiments to their British cousins to use against the colonials, regiments without volunteers and with mostly drafted farmboys.
- Civil War: Happened. Gets a sentence or so in the time space that has a lot on the various wars Prussia conducted on its march to top dog among German principalities in the 1860s and the Franco-Prussian war leading to the Hohenzollern ruled empire on the one hand, and extensive discussion of Victorian Britain as a source of literature and colonial power on the other.
- WWI: late American participation in same noted in half a sentence. Obvious emphasis on senseless slaughter in Europe, but there's also a lot about the build up towards the Russian Revolution and the Russian Revolution itself, which gets as much space as what was going on in late and post war Germany.
- Depression: the US finally gets more than a sentence. Though I still got most of my US history during that time from other sources, but I seem to recall an entire page on the big crash and how depression era America did in comparison to what was happening over here.
- WW II: the US gets as much space as Russia and England do in terms of the military side, but naturally the Third Reich and the full horror of same got most space in the lessons.
- Post War: we didn't get that far in school. I think the last event covered other than the Nuremberg Trials was Marshall Plan and the Berlin air supply in 1947. In history class, at least. We did the development of our constitution and the GDR's in social education.
I'll check out the Adams miniseries when I get the chance and will review, promise!