Is US history of the Cold War avoided in some states?

I'm not an educator, but I barely learned anything about the history of the Cold War in my grade school and wonder how common this is and why it might happen. I live in Ohio and graduated high school in 2014. It seems like we learned US history up to WWII with a decent amount of breadth for a foundational understanding, but the subsequent, more contemporary history, feels patchy. I learned that the Cold War existed, in that it was a conflict relating to "democracy" vs. communism, but it pretty much stops there and seemed to just be explained to set up broad understanding of McCarthyism and the Nixon impeachment. We learned almost nothing about US involvement in Vietnam or the Middle East, how the Cold War began or its aftermath on international affairs. I'm frustrated because as I get older and self-learn some of this topic, I realize how important the understanding of this era is to put current events into context.

I've heard that schools in some states conveniently gloss over the history of slavery and the civil rights movement, but I'm not sure if this kind of intentional deceitfulness might also happen with the history of the US war against communism. Do teachers have a sense that this kind obfuscation also happens, or is it perhaps a matter of the subject requiring too much prerequisite knowledge to easily teach in-depth?

Submitted December 04, 2019 at 10:19AM by Unhealing https://ift.tt/2DNsYO6