I doubt one in five of this generation was even properly educated enough to know who he was!
I am certain Google, Yahoo and others deliberately hid them, but there used to be sources I quoted here that said over 40% of American young people could not answer correctly which came first and second: the American Civil War and World War II.
However, here is an example of the history knowledge today:
According to the survey, only half the American public could correctly identify when the Civil War took place and just 18% knew the Emancipation Proclamation meant slaves were free in areas still in rebellion. When asked to match Lincoln with the famous phrase from the Gettysburg Address “that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth,” more respondents chose a passage from the Declaration of Independence than the lines from Lincoln’s pen.
Nearly one in five Americans failed to identify John Wilkes Booth as Lincoln’s assassin and one in three could not identify Lincoln as a leader of the Union Army. Hundreds of respondents chose “Confederate Army,” the Revolutionary War’s “Continental Army,” World War II’s “Allied Forces,” or simply wouldn’t answer.
Source: GoActa.org
“I don’t know who he is so I cannot have a positive view of him….”
I fear many polls are like this.
They probably think he was a king in the 14th century, back when WW II was fought.
Generation Edible Tide Pod. Most wouldn’t know how to boil water.
That goes for Ronald Reagan. We don’t teach American history anymore.
So young Britons wish Hitler won WWII?
I’d rate QE1 above Churchill.