How To Understand History

I think that the people, government officials, and the society does understand history, but we may make some occasional mistakes and neglect some of these. I think most people try to use what they have learned as a guide. Most the things the people and society do are positive to our society. There are many things that we have improved upon with our history, such as racial discrimination, wage equality, and such ast things such as improving how the government functions and the divisions of the three branches are all signs of improvement. Changes in laws and additions to the law that correct mistakes made in history like violations of privacy, segregation, and so on have been fixed. We can see that racism was prominent in our history and how …show more content…
We also have the opportunity to learn how our country began and the mistakes and decisions we have made like slavery, fight for Independence, Civil War, and so on. This teaches us the results and the consequences of each action, kind of like economy trade-offs and opportunity costs. We learn about the actions countries take and how different types of governments have been implemented in different countries. We learn about how each action the country takes has consequences, such as wars like World War I. We can see in World War I German talks to Mexico about trying to take over the United States and this causes the United States to declare war on Germany and that is how the United States joined the war. We learn that dictators like Hitler have done things in the world that have changed the way the world works together. The world has seen that countries should be left alone, like when Britain was in India there were wars fought again. We also see a peaceful approach from Mahatma Gandhi and how it effectful has been in the history of India. We have also seen how more peaceful strikes like the ones Nelson Mandela had implemented had a great effect towards South