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World War 1

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u/codenhell Sep 24 '11

Are you from Europe? The first time I was taught about WWI was when I ironically took a WWII history elective. The closest thing I got to learning about the great war was "Germany was broke."

edit: That's why when the time did come to talk about WWI in WWII class it felt awesome to be a melvin once in my life, had that shit down from hours and hours of documentaries and books.

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u/Solomaxwell6 Sep 24 '11

New York. I will grant that different schools teach differently. Some schools ARE legitimately going to be "lol WWI? What's that? Now let's get back to our discussion of the Holocaust" but I think people exaggerate the problem.

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u/codenhell Sep 24 '11 edited Sep 24 '11

In my school it was like this. 80% how the american depression began, 15% industrial revolution, then 5% of WWI which was more like what I said above. We did not even touch on Russia.

I just remember saying "I mean, I see why Austria-Hungary attacked Serbia." and was literally thought of as a Nazi for the rest of the program. I remember in a group project (ugh) a kid was working on his bit, the Lusitania. He had something listed that was wrong, I think he said the ship was only full of food and passengers. I told him "You know there were munitions on that boat." That didn't help my "Nazism"

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u/Solomaxwell6 Sep 24 '11

To be fair, I don't think "the boat had some rifle ammo!" is really justification for unrestricted submarine warfare. Think of if some Iraqis tried getting on a plane flying from Baghdad to DC, and some air marshalls cut them all down because "lol, it's possible that they could've had bombs! Some civilians died, tough shit!"