Sixty eight years ago, today...

Bryan Moore · Post by **Bryan Moore** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 2:56 pm

Captain Seafort wrote:
Teaos wrote:The very basics are the same but we have gotten past the "Walk slowly towards the enemy guns" strategy that killed a couple of million people.
True, but the methods I mentioned were the solutions developed in 1917/18 once they'd figured out that the "walk slowly towards the enemy" tactic wasn't working.

Yeah, what the captain said. It was more that we wanted a way to bypass trench warfare and the brutal reality of charging into machine gun fire. I don't know about across the pond, but here in the States we pretty much teach WWI as the first truly modern war (as well as the war with the most ridiculously ineffective technologies that led to major legitimate developments)

Post by **Teaos** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 3:50 pm

Well here we teach it as the major turning point in world politics. WWII brough in a lot of tech but WWI changed world politics in a way that hasnt been seen in hundreds of years.

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 4:40 pm

Over here we barely teach it at all. Which is something I'm not very pleased about, we mostly just do a (very) brief summary of WW I and go straight on to II.

Post by **Captain Seafort** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 5:09 pm

Well, in Britain, we usually learn quite a bit about trench warfare generally, but very little about the last couple of years of the war, when tactics started to improve. As for WW2, there's usually a fair bit about the buildup to the war in the 30s, but sod-all about the war itself.

Bryan Moore · Post by **Bryan Moore** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 6:14 pm

Yeah, the general idea in our Western European History curriculum at my school is to spend about 2 weeks on World War I, and how it essentially is a turning point into modern political problems, and its influence on WWII. Which makes sense historically. In our US course, it largely gets skipped over, other than the result of making the US a significant world power.

Post by **Teaos** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 12:58 am

I'd be interested to know how Germany teach their history.

Bryan Moore · Post by **Bryan Moore** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 1:23 am

Teaos wrote:I'd be interested to know how Germany teach their history.

Very delicately =)

RK_Striker_JK_5 · Post by **RK_Striker_JK_5** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 1:44 am

My grandfathers on both sides of my family-mother's and father's-were ww II veterans. *Says a prayer for their souls*

Let us never forger, so say we all.

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 7:41 pm

I'd be interested to know how Germany teach their history.

From what little I know I gather that they do teach the history of WW2, but place higher emphasis on 'he was EVIL' than we do.

Monroe · Post by **Monroe** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 9:00 pm

I think you have to get into upper history level classes to learn about WWI. I took a modern european class and we did about a month pre-WWI with the Morocco Crissis x2 and the problems of Russia then dived into WWI where we spent the bulk of the semester. I think we actualy spent more on WWI than II but then again WWII is taught in the US History 1865 onwards class, Modern World History, and some other classes. They probably figured that since they didn't cover WWI then they should cover it in Modern European.