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For better or worse I don't remember hearing much about anything in school past the US civil war, and I even took an optional class specifically about war lol. Nothing about Korea, nothing about the US colonization of the Philippines, just extremely basic stuff.
In my experience, the only things that were significantly covered past that were: The Holocaust (I read maybe near 10 books on the subject, far more than on any other topic), a very white-washed version of the civil rights movement where we really only talked vaguely about segregation and MLK Jr., and 9/11.
Yeah the amount of Holocaust content covered in my k-12 definitely lends credence to the theory that it is a concerted effort to portray it as the most horrendous genocide ever and exceptionally evil thus tying into the absurd narrative that Israel needs to exist and was a product of the Holocaust and that the US was the hero of WW2.