Hi there! You’ve asked a question along the lines of ‘why didn’t I learn about X’. We’re happy to let this question stand, but there are a variety of reasons why you may find it hard to get a good answer to this question on /r/AskHistorians.

Firstly, school curricula and how they are taught vary strongly between different countries and even even different states. Additionally, how they are taught is often influenced by teachers having to compromise on how much time they can spend on any given topic. More information on your location and level of education might be helpful to answer this question.

Secondly, we have noticed that these questions are often phrased to be about people's individual experience but what they are really about is why a certain event is more prominent in popular narratives of history than others.

Instead of asking "Why haven't I learned about event ...", considering asking "What importance do scholars assign to event ... in the context of such and such history?" - the latter question is often closer to what to what people actually want to know and is more likely to get a good answer from an expert. If you intend to ask the 'What importance do scholars assign to event X' question instead, let us know and we'll remove this question.

Thank you!

As a follow-up to this:

How accurate was the seminal 1966 film "The Battle of Algiers"?

I remember being shown this film in undergrad as a corollary to the US situation in Afghanistan, with the increasing French brutality and infiltration as a template for breaking an insurgency.

Did the US or any other occupying forces ultimately use this historical material as a reference point in fighting more modern insurgencies?

Another question, what influence did the French-Algerian war have in France and how does it compare to the way Vietnam influenced the United States?

What effect has the French-Algerian War had on nationalist sentiment in Algeria?