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History that should be remembered but generally isn't...

InfinityInfinity
edited April 2008 in Everything Else
So, I've got a project for school where I have to make a memorial about something, and Google wasn't helping much, so I ask the community: what is the most important thing that usually gets left out? What gets glossed over by WWII, the JFK assassination, etc.?
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  • ErwinErwin
    Humans tend to look at the bad things that have happened on the past. I recommend to look the good things that have happened around the world. Maybe the fall of the Berlin Wall? , If you want to show courage
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  • SailSail
    edited April 2008
    Fucking Nazis didn't only take over most of Europe, they also took over most every grade school History and English class in America.
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  • InfinityInfinity
    Maybe the fall of the Berlin Wall?
    That's what first came to my dad's mind, but it already gets quite a lot of attention. I'll keep it in mind, but thanks for helping.
  • jccjcc
    edited April 2008
    How about a memorial to Philo T. Farnsworth? :)
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  • Linkigi(Link-ee-jee)Linkigi(Link-ee-jee)
    Does this have to be American or recent history?

    I would do one for the fall of Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire in 1453.
  • PaulathonPaulathon
    Hardly anyone is aware of the Armenian genocide, compared to other tragedies on a similar scale.
  • rhinocerorhinocero
    It could be interesting to do the Hungarian Revolution or the Franco-Prussian War. Or you could commemorate the reign of His Imperial Majesty Norton I, Emperor of these United States and Protector of Mexico.
  • OmnutiaOmnutia
    It'd be nice if people were taught about the war of independence. It's something I'd have been interesting to know about something other than the world wars.
  • RymRym
    It could be interesting to do theHungarian Revolutionor theFranco-Prussian War
    Both were covered in fair detail in my ninth/tenth grade history classes. I remember the latter specifically studied as the precursor to the first world war. It toppled an ascendant French Empire and brought about true German unification.
  • HMTKSteveHMTKSteve
    How about the historically inaccurate account of Manhattan island being purchased for a handful of trinkets? The trinket sale involved a group of native Americans who had no claim to the land. The Dutch later had to purchase the island from the native Americans who owned it and they paid a lot for it.

    May not be memorial material but it is history that should be known.
  • StarfoxStarfox
    Omnutia, which war of independence?
  • HungryJoeHungryJoe
    The D-Day Dodgers, who fought in Italy but were slighted because they weren't at Normandy.

    Dresden.

    Andersonville.

    Nanking.

    The Potemkin.

    The Katyn Massacre.
  • kiwi_birdkiwi_bird
    If you do anything about Germany/ the GDR I'd be happy to help!
    Fucking Nazis didn't only take over most of Europe, they also took over most every grade school History and English class in America.
    Imagine that times a thousand. That's history class in Germany.. ^_~
  • HungryJoeHungryJoe
    The Crater.
  • fuzzyjfuzzyj
    War of 1812 from what i Understand American schools don't even talk about it
  • OmnutiaOmnutia
    War of 1812from what i Understand American schools don't even talk about it
    So why does America celebrate independance day?
  • Li_AkahiLi_Akahi
    edited April 2008
    War of 1812from what i Understand American schools don't even talk about it
    So why does America celebrate independance day?
    The war of 1812 wasn't our war of Independence, it was more us trying to keep our sovereignity.
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  • RymRym
    War of 1812from what I Understand American schools don't even talk about it
    Actually, we studied it pretty deeply. It was basically a stalemate between the US and Britain.
  • OmnutiaOmnutia
    I wonder how the world would change if countries had to teach children only about wars they had lost.
  • Li_AkahiLi_Akahi
    edited April 2008
    I wonder how the world would change if countries had to teach children only about wars they had lost.
    Everyone would be French as they would think that they only lost.
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  • JasonJason
    edited April 2008
    I-n-d-e-p-e-n-d-e-n-c-e.

    Independence.

    The American Revolutionary War was fought from 1776 to 1781. The War of 1812 was fought between the British and Americans as an offshoot of a war between the British and French. The Americans were angry about trade restrictions imposed by the British navy. Then the British navy started enslaving American sailors into service aboard their ships, and we got really, really pissed.
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  • AndrewAndrew
    The Quasi-War with France.
  • OmnutiaOmnutia
    I-n-d-e-p-e-n-d-e-n-c-e.

    Independence.
    Yes, that is how you spell it. So what? The British have screwed up plenty of countries.
  • HungryJoeHungryJoe
    From 1918 to 1920, the U.S. Army sent 15,000 troops to Murmansk, Archangel, and Vladivostok as part of an Allied force in opposition to the Bolsheviks.
  • KilarneyKilarney
    A second vote for the Armenian genocide.
  • InfinityInfinity
    Thanks for all of the comments; surely I can find something in here.
  • YoshoKatanaYoshoKatana
    I think the Armenian Genocide, Byzantine Empire, or the Russian Civil War would be good candidates. We don't cover those at all, and each of them are incredibly important. Of lesser importance is the Winter War, between Russia and Finland. It isn't taught in the United States, but it's pretty interesting as well.
  • rhinocerorhinocero
    It could be interesting to do theHungarian Revolutionor theFranco-Prussian War
    Both were covered in fair detail in my ninth/tenth grade history classes. I remember the latter specifically studied as the precursor to the first world war. It toppled an ascendant French Empire and brought about true German unification.
    Judging from this and the War of 1812 thing, you apparently had a really awesome history department. In my history classes, there was a paragraph about the Hungarian Revolt and a sentence about the Franco-Prussian War. I think the War of 1812 might have merited a couple pages, though.
  • CremlianCremlian
    I sometimes think people forget most of what they learn in High school history, I know for a fact we spent some time on almost all of the above topics.... Except of course the Armenian Genocide.
  • Mr. EricMr. Eric
    I sometimes think people forget most of what they learn in High school history, I know for a fact we spent some time on almost all of the above topics.... Except of course the Armenian Genocide.
    Ha, we just learned about that today.

    I agree with you though.
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