National defense education refers to the people's national defense education, which is a fundamental and overall event and an important part of the socialist spiritual civilization construction and the national ideological education system. Strengthening youth national defense education is an unshirkable historical mission of educators and a sacred task that history teachers must shoulder.

History teaching is closely related to national defense education. This is not only because their contents and purposes are basically similar, but also because history teaching has unique advantages in national defense education. National defense education is an important content of history teaching, and history teaching is an important channel and means of national defense education. National defense is a complex, which refers to military and military-related political, economic and cultural construction and struggle to defend national sovereignty, territorial integrity and security and resist foreign aggression and subversion. National defense is a common phenomenon in human society, which is accompanied by the emergence of the country. Since the emergence of countries in human society, there have been national defense, military system, national defense consciousness and national defense system. In a sense, the history of human civilization is also an invincible and thrilling national defense history. Therefore, the history of national defense is not only closely related to the political history, economic history and cultural history of human society, but also an important part of the history of human civilization. At the same time, the unique characteristics of history teaching, such as concrete content, vivid image, strong story and appeal, the integration of knowledge education and ideological education, the consistency of views and materials, and the unity of emotional training and method guidance, determine that history teaching has incomparable advantages in national defense education.

Effective national defense education in history teaching will not only help students to fully grasp the basic knowledge of history, stimulate their interest and initiative in learning history, and cultivate some excellent psychological qualities of students, but also enable students to be prepared for danger in times of peace, keep a clear political mind, adhere to the correct political direction, obviously enhance their awareness of national defense, national security and hardship, and improve their sense of patriotism, home protection and founding the country. Therefore, with a high sense of historical mission and political responsibility ...