Well, they were both in black-and-white and had trains. But World War Two had airplanes and tanks. So it had to be later.
Ha. Clever reasoning.
NYT
Survey Finds Teenagers Ignorant on Basic History...
The New York Times
Feb 27, 2008 — The survey results, released on Tuesday, demonstrate that a significant proportion of teenagers live in “stunning ignorance” of history and literature.
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another type of survey:
The questions aren’t particularly difficult. They consist of things like naming any one of the three branches of government, how many US senators there are, and naming a right or freedom guaranteed by the First Amendment. Rock-bottom, basic stuff.
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Frankly, it was to correct a profound national embarrassment: more than 96 percent of immigrants seeking naturalization pass the test—a rate that Americans at-large are nowhere near matching. Only 13 percent, in one survey, knew when the US Constitution was ratified, for example. Most couldn’t say which countries the US fought in World War II; only one in four could even say why American colonists fought a war against Great Britain. Unsurprisingly, older Americans have the easiest time of it, with 74 percent answering at least six in 10 questions correctly. Among those under the age of 45, only one in five pass, which says a lot about the debased standards of common knowledge expected of students in US schools, whose founding purpose was to prepare ordinary people for self-government.
It is hard to overstate what a low bar the citizenship test represents.
https://www.aei.org/education/students-lack-of-basic-knowledge-of-us-history-and-civics-remains-a-national-embarrassment/#:~:text=A%20new%20study%20from%20a,high%20school%20graduation%20requirement%20does