"It's not so much that she didn't know the capital or the country. You cant expect everyone to know this stuff. But 'I thought Europe was a country'.... come on dude !!!! Surly American history lessons covered the attack on Normandy and that means you should know about France, Germany and the UK being countries in Europe."

You forgot about Poland -.- Polish ppl was one of the most important soldiers in WW II !! We were fighting for UK in their air forces, and even Churchill thanked polish soldiers.

BTW: Americans are really... eh... :/