Some do. My schooling made clear we were the good guys [relative] in that conflict. Sure we didn’t talk about the “premature antifascist” designation, but we did get told of the inhumanity of the Japanese internment camps and how some Americans of Japanese decent (and even some Japanese immigrants) still wanted to fight Japan for our country. We also had acknowledgements that the Navajo code talkers were vital and had every reason not to want to aid us.
Other things we learned about that people assume we didn’t include: the fact that our founding fathers were largely slave owners, that some of them were abolitionists and the fact that slavery was known to be evil at the time, the trail of tears, the fact that Nat Turner’s rebellion inspired John Brown (though there was discussion on the ethics of their killing of children), the fact that we’ve broken nearly every treaty we’ve made with native Americans, and the fact that we overthrew multiple republics for cheap bananas.
Some do. My schooling made clear we were the good guys [relative] in that conflict. Sure we didn’t talk about the “premature antifascist” designation, but we did get told of the inhumanity of the Japanese internment camps and how some Americans of Japanese decent (and even some Japanese immigrants) still wanted to fight Japan for our country. We also had acknowledgements that the Navajo code talkers were vital and had every reason not to want to aid us.
Other things we learned about that people assume we didn’t include: the fact that our founding fathers were largely slave owners, that some of them were abolitionists and the fact that slavery was known to be evil at the time, the trail of tears, the fact that Nat Turner’s rebellion inspired John Brown (though there was discussion on the ethics of their killing of children), the fact that we’ve broken nearly every treaty we’ve made with native Americans, and the fact that we overthrew multiple republics for cheap bananas.