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My history classes were barely getting to Vietnam when I was young, from middle school through high. They kept getting bogged down early, then made a mad dash to get caught up, skimming terribly. These days?
In most places, the same, from what I understand. It's tough. If I could rearrange history curriculum, there would be an class on "modern history" that looked at just the last ~100 years, globally. I think students would like it a LOT, and it would make the relevance apparent.
As a kid, a proud moment was doing a mock court trial in social studies. I was the “lawyer” trying to convince the “jury” the bombing was wrong. Did lots of reading and found a lot of this and I won. My teacher said I was the first kid to win for that side in all her classes.
We had a mock trial too, but it was retrying a part of the Nuremberg Trials. I was the Nazi defendant (Von Ribbentrop who was the Foreign Diplomat) since the sentence was life in prison instead of death, we considered it a win.
Both sides hit the books really hard which was kinda surprising b/c in 9th grade we rarely stayed after school. I don't remember if the fake judges studied tho. It was an amazing experience & very memorable.
Since then I've been studying different aspects of the Holocaust. I have 5 shelves of books on the subject. (Tbh I'm a bibliophile who has 8 bookcases)
I had a teacher literally say, "And we all know why we dropped the atomic bombs..."and look around the room while nodding her head- just about every kid nodding quickly after. Some smartass (me) raised his hand, "uh, well, no, I don't know why necessarily- there's debate, no?"
That was it- that was the sum total of all the instruction I got in four years at Savannah (MO) High School regarding my country's deployment of weapons of mass destruction.
Always though that as well! 
Curriculums are not enough though, we need a complete revision.
And thank you for the great history lesson.
This is what we do in Australia. Modern history tends to focus on nineteenth and twentieth centuries in high school curriculum. As an early modern history buff this was disappointing but I suppose that’s what university is for?
In WA in years 11 and 12 we did 1900-1939 in Australia, the US, Russia/USSR and Germany. Not perfect by any means but I thought it did a good job of explaining what the actual background was to the war which you'll be learning about all your life anyway
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