Well, I did take American and European history in high school (well enough to get 4s on the AP exam). Only American was mandatory, though. As previously noted, we stopped before the World Wars. And neither course went before the Renaissance. So I got no classical or medieval history at all. I mean, I was supposed to have some of that in middle school, but a) the USSR fell so we spent most of our time on that and b) the teacher who was supposed to teach us classical history was so awful that I'd do my homework in class, in front of her when it was due and she never noticed. And the teacher who taught us Canadian and Mexican history thought that Quebec would secede and BC would defect to the US, and we'd take over the rest of Canada piece by piece, so I'm not really trusting anything he said. (Though I can still name all the provinces and territories.) And none of the Mexican history stuck, though I'm not surprised. It's so dang complicated.