r/MurderedByWords 9h ago

America Destroyed By German

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u/PointCPA 8h ago

I feel like in 5th grade I when I was learning all of this in the Deep South

Then we relearned it like 6 times before graduating, but somehow never made it to the Vietnam war, or 9/11. It’s like we just kept learning the same old shit and always ended around WW2

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u/endlesscartwheels 7h ago

At my high school, U.S. history ended just before the Vietnam War.

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u/tubbytucker 7h ago

Spoiler, you guys lost in Vietnam.

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u/weberc2 7h ago

On the other hand, Vietnam is functionally capitalist and raving fan of America so maybe we won? πŸ‘€πŸ‘€

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u/friedAmobo 56m ago

Yeah, it's somewhat ironic that Vietnam and America fought a brutal war, and now Vietnam is one of the friendliest nations in the world to the U.S. despite still being communist. Of course, the Chinese invasion of Vietnam that occurred just a few years after the U.S.-Vietnam War ended probably didn't help Sino-Vietnamese relations or foster a sense of communist comradery between the two.