Просто когда дети учились в школе, их и меня это изрядно удивило.
Но у американцев иной подход к обучению - расписание ученики составляют сами себе, точнее, их родители выбирают классы из необходимых и доступных. Расписание каждый день одно и то же, 5 дней в неделю, то есть в четверть или семестр можно выбрать 4-5 курсов. Есть минимальный набор курсов, чтобы получить аттестат, есть наборы курсов, необходимые для подачи документов в университет, в основном это довольно базовая математика, химия и/или физика, английский/литература и история США/патриотическое воспитание.
12 класс получается практически пустой - все нужные курсы надо брать до 11 класса включительно, потому что документы в универы подаются осенью выпускного 12 класса. Весной универы дают ответ на заявку. Мой сын брал в 12-м микроэкономику и макроэкономику по полгода, государственное устройство США и мат.стат (прочую наиболее продвинутую математику из доступных он брал ранее).
При такой системе на прочее, географию например, остается по полгода изучения всего. Со всемирной историей примерно так же.
Reassured, Hitler invaded the Soviet
Union on June 22, 1941. He believed that the
Russians could still be decisively defeated
before the brutal winter weather set in.
The massive attack stretched out along a
front some 1,800 miles (about 2,900 km)
long. German troops advanced rapidly,
capturing two million Russian soldiers. By
November, one German army group had
swept through Ukraine. A second army
was besieging the city of Leningrad, while
a third approached within 25 miles (about
40 km) of Moscow, the Soviet capital.
An early winter and fierce Soviet resistance,
however, halted the German
advance. Because of the planned spring
date for the invasion, the Germans had no
winter uniforms. For the first time in the
war, German armies had been stopped. A
counterattack in December 1941 by a Soviet
army came as an ominous ending to the
year for the Germans
1942-43:
On the Eastern Front, after the capture of
the Crimea, Hitler’s generals wanted him
to concentrate on the Caucasus and its oil
fields. Hitler, however, decided that
Stalingrad, a major industrial center on
the Volga River, should be taken first.
In perhaps the most terrible battle of the
war, between November 1942 and February
2, 1943, the Soviets launched a counterattack.
German troops were stopped, then
encircled, and supply lines were cut off, all
in frigid winter conditions. The Germans
were forced to surrender at Stalingrad. The
entire German Sixth Army, considered the
best of the German troops, was lost.
By February 1943, German forces in Russia
were back to their positions of June
1942. By the spring of 1943, even Hitler
knew that the Germans would not defeat
the Soviet Union.
1944-45:
The Soviets had come a long way since the Battle of Stalingrad
in 1943. The Soviets had soundly defeated the German
forces at the Battle of Kursk (July 5 to 12), the greatest
tank battle of World War II. Soviet forces now began a
steady advance westward. Reoccupying the Ukraine by
the end of 1943, they moved into the Baltic states by early
1944. Advancing along a northern front, Soviet troops
occupied Warsaw in January 1945 and entered Berlin in
April. Meanwhile, Soviet troops along a southern front
swept through Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria.
Украину, оказывается, "снова оккупировали". Про Ленинград, Багратион, Манчжурию вообще не упоминается.
