The average American knows so little about the First World War that propagandized is a strong word. I’d go for “ignorantly and indifferently assumed”. But yeah, the prevailing attitude about the Second World War is maddening and the number of Americans who use “if it wasn’t for us, you’d be speaking German” as a rebuke of complaints by Europeans about modern issues drives me crazy.
The average American knows so little about the First World War that propagandized is a strong word. I’d go for “ignorantly and indifferently assumed”. But yeah, the prevailing attitude about the Second World War is maddening and the number of Americans who use “if it wasn’t for us, you’d be speaking German” as a rebuke of complaints by Europeans about modern issues drives me crazy.