They make it out it was some conventional war where the allies came together to storm the beaches and they won the end.

That is quite literally how I was taught. Germany was rampaging through Europe, the Allies came together to form The Avengers, and they somehow won the entire war by storming Normandy beach. And then we nuked Japan for no reason at all. Simple as that. The rest of the time they could have spent going into greater detail was spent watching various Hollywood propaganda movies about the Holocaust.

I suspect I'm not the only one my age to get such a robust education.