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I disagree about that. I base it on Ooblek's lesson. The discussion of the Faunus War was too sterile and detached. If it were recent enough that the current students were born in its immediate aftermath, I would have expected far stronger reactions - including implications that the Faunus somehow 'cheated' by using dishonourable means and Ooblek having to counter some students parroting anti-Faunus propaganda that they would likely have heard from their parents who spent their young adulthoods hearing it - if it had happened during their parents' time.

That makes it seem likely to me that it is at least as far back in their past as the First World War is for us; far back enough that the question as to whether the RMS Lusitania was a legitimate target and the like have become academic and even boring to some poorer students.