&gt; I was born in 1985, ostensibly, but I&#x27;ve never heard of this and don&#x27;t even know where that Grenada is<p>I was born in 1993 and I know plenty about the communist-backed coup and subsequent invasion of Grenada. I wouldn&#x27;t use being born in chronological proximity to an event as a measure of it&#x27;s geopolitical importance. That said, I&#x27;ve never heard that the US invasion of Grenada was so important in the wider Cold War as to call it &quot;a massive shock&quot;. In reality, the collapse of the good ol&#x27; USSR is a confluence of events, political, economic, and social that lead to the breakup of world&#x27;s only other super power. Look at that, the world isn&#x27;t all black and white and can fit into an online article!<p>Unrelated, but I think schools should do more to teach kids about history in relation to current major events and issues around the globe. I most adoringly recall my &quot;Current Events&quot; course which was entirely based around teaching the last 150 or so years of major events and the underlying history that lead to those events. At the very least, folks would be a bit better served by learning why Iraq and Afghanistan are the clusterfucks they are as opposed to the Lewis &amp; Clark expedition. I guess what I&#x27;m getting at is the US history education pretty much starts on the East coast and ends on the West with not much outside those boundaries.