The Cold War as Ancient History

I thought this New York Times op-ed piece might be an interesting way to generate a first discussion for this blog. Roger Cohen talks about the idea that what high school students learn about communism and the cold war is very limitted but that at the same time it is all available at their fingertips through the internet. I am curious about what people think in terms of how high school students learn about the Cold War in American history class (if you can remember back to then) and maybe what was left out that you have learned so far in this class at Wesleyan? What was left out and why? Also interesting is the impact of technology on the availablity of knowledge to students. Do you think they use the technology wisely?