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Standard 5.3.E

5.3.E Analyze multiple perspectives on the economic, political, and social effects of World War II and its aftermath using primary and secondary sources.

Grade(s): 5

Subject(s): Social Studies

Year: 2019

Title:
The Invasion of Poland
The Invasion of Poland

Lesson

Grades: 5, 6, 7, 8

Students will understand the influence of dictators in Europe and the role European Nations played in World War II.

Life During World War Two Era | Gracie and Lacy
Life During World War Two Era | Gracie and Lacy

Video

Grades: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Students will be immersed in the music, dance, culture and history of the World War Two Era in this infotainment-style program. Entertainers and teaching artists Gracie and Lacy engage students...
Life During World War Two
Life During World War Two

Lesson

Grades: 5

Students will be immersed in the music, dance, culture and history of the World War Two Era in this infotainment-style program. Entertainers and teaching artists Gracie and Lacy engage students...

Camp Croft | ETV Upstate
Camp Croft | ETV Upstate

Video

Grades: 5 8

Camp Croft, a WWII Army Infantry Replacement Center located near Spartanburg, SC. Since 2001, this site has served to honor those who worked and trained at Croft from 1940 to 1946 and to memorialize...
Pearl Harbor | South Carolina's Greatest Generation 2
Pearl Harbor | South Carolina's Greatest Generation
Episode 2

Video

Grades: 5 8 9 10 11 12

On December 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor was attacked by air, by the Japanese. Nine South Carolinians were killed along with 1,168 of their shipmates on board the Battleship Arizona. The nation was now at...
A Time to Fight, Part 7 7
A Time to Fight, Part 7
Episode 7

Video

Grades: 5 8 9 10 11 12

The Tuskegee Airmen were African-American pilots during WWII. Before the war, the Army thought African-Americans could only be used as laborers. African-Americans faced all sorts of prejudice and...
A Time to Fight, Part 1 1
A Time to Fight, Part 1
Episode 1

Video

Grades: 5 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

This episode follows our veterans from their childhoods to the attack on Pearl Harbor and following through to the first battles of the war in North Africa, Italy and Sicily. Additional sections...
Vanishing Generation, Part 10 10
Vanishing Generation, Part 10
Episode 10

Video

Grades: 5 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

The single most important event in world history in the 20th century occurred more than sixty years ago, and we have lost many of our ties to that past. Preserving the history of World War II has...
Vanishing Generation, Part 9 9
Vanishing Generation, Part 9
Episode 9

Video

Grades: 5 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

Veterans of World War II reflect on whether they should be considered heroes or not. One says he happened to be over there, and he volunteered to go to Hawaii, but they didn't know the war would come...
Vanishing Generation, Part 4 4
Vanishing Generation, Part 4
Episode 4

Video

Grades: 5 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

Tom Grove, prisoner of war survivor, recalls the Battle of the Bulge, and says that is where he got his first combat injury. He was taken prisoner that day, after a German tank pulled up in front of...
Vanishing Generation, Part 8 8
Vanishing Generation, Part 8
Episode 8

Video

Grades: 5 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

Tom Grove, prisoner of war survivor, tells the story of being in his second prison camp, and hearing bombing way off in the distance, and how the noise of artillery got louder and closer, along with...
Japan's Surrender | History of SC Slide Collection
Japan's Surrender | History of SC Slide Collection
Episode 17

Photo

Grades: 5 8 9 10 11 12

The end of the Second World War came with the surrender of Japan on VJ Day, August 14, 1945. South Carolinians celebrated the victory with dancing in the streets of Charleston and with great joy. They...
A Segregated Military | Palmetto Scene
A Segregated Military | Palmetto Scene

Video

Grades: 3 4 5

B.S. Plair of Rock Hill, South Carolina, served for the Montford Point Marines in 1945, until he was honorably discharged in 1946. The Montford Point Marines were based in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina...
Exhibit 2: Air Force History | Tuskegee Airmen 7
Exhibit 2: Air Force History | Tuskegee Airmen
Episode 7

Video

Grades: 5 8 9 10 11 12

During the Celebrate Freedom - Tuskegee Airmen 60th Anniversary, Ralph Parks shares the history from Freedom through Flight: African Americans in the United States Air Force.