2006-06-19 17:36:18 · 12 answers · asked by Cuzj 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
in A Hig school Hisotry book unter the chapter "US contemporary history "
you'll find references to event that happen in the last 10 ....20 yrs?
2006-06-19 18:12:53 · update #1
events such as ?????
2006-06-20 04:42:07 · update #2
~Read the book, if you can. It will probably answer all your questions. They didn't teached me nuttin bout dat stuff, but they taught me to read and think.
2006-07-03 18:32:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well, to begin with they TEACH there is no such word in the English language as "TEACHED".
Besides that, the latest insanity is to drop all American History prior to the Civil War from the history books, so the next crop of functional illiterates to be graduated from High School, won't know about half of the history of this country.
2006-06-29 14:39:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just what the book states, Contemporay history is history closer to the present in the past ten or twenty years. But some history texts are what's happening in past less than ten years. Some texts in high school sorry to say have not been updated since the cold war and the teacher addresses what's happened since. The sorry state of most high school history texts and classroom curriculum is real embrassing situation and should be badely revised and fixed soon. History is not a boring subject.
2006-06-20 01:28:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lets see...20 years ago was 1986
Soviet Union "glasnost" and "perestroika" and Gorbachev's attempt to reform Soviet Communist system.
Reagan's unlimited spending on the military in an effort to outspend the Soviet Union.
Northern Ireland rebelling against the IRA.
Iran Contra Scandal involving the Reagan administration 1986
The Fall of the Berlin Wall and the disintegration of the Warsaw Pact. 1989
Minnesota Twins win the World Series in 1986
"Read my lips; no more taxes" promise broken by George H.W. Bush.
....and that's just off the top of my head....
2006-06-30 16:27:24 · answer #4 · answered by BlueDart 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Contemporary - within the past 20 years or so.
Wars - current Iraq crisis, Gulf War, against Panama, against Granada, (anything since Viet Nam)
Oil Crises
Different presidents, their plans economically and militarily
The value of the dollar, the stock market
Just stop me when you have had enough...
2006-06-30 01:24:58 · answer #5 · answered by lrad1952 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
post World War II history is TAUGHT in American classrooms
2006-06-29 17:55:39 · answer #6 · answered by mitty 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What contemporary history is taught in American classrooms?
Not clear about what you are trying to ascertain.
2006-06-20 01:02:33 · answer #7 · answered by kearneyconsulting 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
history
2006-07-03 14:49:31 · answer #8 · answered by aliajao 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suggest you concern yourself with an American spelling class. Then move on to history!
2006-07-03 21:14:17 · answer #9 · answered by I am Sunshine 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
President Bush studied history at Yale - pity he did not cover the Middle East!!!!!!
2006-07-02 17:51:55 · answer #10 · answered by Conservative 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Obviously not spelling and grammar. Who teached you how to spoke English?
2006-06-20 09:52:59 · answer #11 · answered by Nathan D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋