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Here’s how my high school US history class taught world war 2:
World War 2 started when Hitler and Stalin made an alliance and invaded Poland together because they were evil individuals. The Nazis invade and beat most of the rest of Europe to find more Jewish people to kill, and betray and start fighting Russia. The US has been out of the war but supplying weapons to the British, but when Japan suddenly out of nowhere bombed Pearl Harbor we joined the war, and after the D-Day invasion we liberated Europe with the help of the British. Then we liberated the places Japan invaded, and to end the war we used nuclear bombs, which killed less people than would’ve been killed if we invaded.
The closest we got to a materialist explanation of history was that making Germany pay reparations after WW1 was a bad idea and crashed their economy and that’s why Nazis happened.
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It is true, the US sort of played at being magnanimous with Germany but demanded full payment of war debts with interest from Britain and France whose ability to pay rested on what reparations they could wring from Germany, who in turn was expected to enact extreme austerity and wring the money out of its people (or borrow it from private US banks). The French invaded and occupied the Ruhr in order to claim in land, factories etc what reparations Germany couldn't pay in cash. There's a good deal written about this in Superimperialism by Michael Hudson.
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Yeah that makes sense.
Wait that last paragraph is really good though I feel like nobody ever learns that even if their education on how the war played out was much better than your school
Idealism overload
World War I is like the only place where general education HAS to use historical materialism, cuz otherwise kids wouldn’t understand.