Switzerland and Austria - thought Prague, for example, was much further east.
I didn’t after Year 9. Did quite well at history but think I narrowly snubbed it at AS-level for French, long story. For GCSE (1999-2001) IIRC it was entirely UK-based and about the Industrial Revolution, trade unions, creation of the Welfare State etc.
Very grateful for your reply as the other day I thought for hours about how the latter was a huge positive in firing my young mind to believe passionately in the NHS, workers’ rights, democratic socialism, the absence of a lot of very important global knowledge of the 1930s and 1940s made me very complacent in my teens and twenties about recent European issues, maybe as far as Little Englander, Mark Francois-esque delusions that Britain were always the good guys and fascism couldn’t happen here. Though I remember talking to my mum the day before the Brexit vote and saying with some conviction something like “It won’t really matter if we remain or leave, we’ll still get on fine with the rest of Europe, my friend (mentioned upthread) who lives in Dresden has loads of friends there, and of course in 1945 we did something terrible to that city but a lot’s changed and moved on since then” 
I mean I would say, never mind, you live and learn, but a big thank you for mentioning this as I’ve needed this wake-up call. Though it only took me 48 hours to regret voting Leave, however much a left-wing ideology behind it I imagined, and I’ve regularly explained then apologised for/disowned that stance here and elsewhere ever since, I don’t think I’ve engaged and empathised genuinely enough with people who very understandably, including many on this forum and many people I know personally, have been upset and worried about Brexit ever since. In short, yeah, I think formative experiences, plus a few privileges, gave me a false sense of security that everything’s going to be alright. When, though I shouldn’t stop getting on with everyday life, I must trust more in whatever those quotes were about the wall between democracy and dictatorship/good and evil being paper-thin, and/or democracy being a thousand times easier to break than make. So many thanks for that as it’s sparked a lot of ambition in me to have much more articulate and understanding political dialogue 
I’m blurring this as I don’t want to risk “quirky” trivialising but I’ve got into arguments about Brexit with everyone from a friend who works in a Manchester craft shop to the lead singer of Menswe@r… sigh.
Also, lots of friends my age not at Bentham Grammar School (closed 2002 (!)) had a much better handle on understanding the US etc. through doing Modern World History - about the counter-culture, civil rights, Vietnam War etc. I learned more from 60s music biographies than I ever did at school. People taking one History GCSE syllabus in 2000 may remember there was an incredibly difficult question on Vietnam which I think was the last question of what was for many kids the last paper of those exams - a friend got 10 A*s and would have a clean sweep of 11 if it wasn’t for that final Becher’s Brook!
