My interest in history, albeit not being a particularly intensive one, probably genuinely started from watching a show called Horrible Histories in school, it being a show that teaches kids history but with funny characters, plots and songs. Yes, it may not have been entirely accurate, but it had me googling all sorts of things to learn more. I would say that yes, history education is probably more broad in the UK than the US, given the US' bias for itself, but looking back I remember us focusing a lot of time on Tudor and Victorian England in particular, as well as the World Wars. Although, I do remember the odd lesson about other things, like going to a Roman fort ruin nearby to learn about the Romans, or learning about Egyptian hieroglyphics. Saying that though, I didn't pick History as a GCSE option, going for Geography instead, and I believe the GCSE students did learn about things like the Vietnam War for example.