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Crawford, Keith A., Ed.; Foster, Stuart J., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2007
The Second World War stands as the most devastating and destructive global conflict in human history. More than 60 nations representing 1.7 billion people or three quarters of the world's population were consumed by its horror. Not surprisingly, therefore, World War II stands as a landmark episode in history education throughout the world and its…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, War, Memory
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Schwartz, David – Social Education, 1989
Urges the frank examination of painful episodes in Western and other open societies' recent history to achieve glasnost and historical honesty. Cites the Klaus Barbie trial and the accompanying embarrassment for both France and the United States. Points out distortion in Japanese textbooks on the pre- and World War II years and in U.S. textbooks…
Descriptors: Asian History, Elementary Secondary Education, European History, Foreign Countries