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Standard 8.5.CO

8.5.CO - Compare South Carolina and U.S. wartime contributions and demobilization after World War II.

Grade(s): 8

Subject(s): Social Studies

Year: 2019

The Doolittle Raiders | History of SC Slide Collection

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The Doolittle Raiders | History of SC Slide Collection

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The Columbia Army Air Base in Lexington County became the headquarters of Colonel Jimmy Doolittle's famous "Raiders," who trained there for their bombing run over Tokyo. Courtesy of the Thomas Cooper...

Japan's Surrender | History of SC Slide Collection

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Japan's Surrender | History of SC Slide Collection

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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...

Hampton Prisoner of War Camp | History of SC Slide Collection

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Hampton Prisoner of War Camp | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 14

Several prisoner-of-war camps were established in South Carolina to house captured Germans. This is the street of a camp in Hampton, photographed around 1944. Courtesy of Mildred B. Rivers.

Mt. Vernon Mills Ceremony | History of SC Slide Collection

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Mt. Vernon Mills Ceremony | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 13

This Mt. Vernon Mills ceremony,held in Columbia, on October 27, 1943, presents the Army-Navy flag to one of the units in the mill for buying the most E-Bonds. Such ceremonies helped promote the sale...

Civilian Sacrifices on the Home Front | History of SC Slide Collection

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Civilian Sacrifices on the Home Front | History of SC Slide Collection

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The Second World War, like the first, required sacrifice and work at home, as well as the commitment of soldiers fighting abroad. During the war, civilians were called on to conserve almost everything...

Red Cross Volunteers March in Parade | History of SC Slide Collection

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Red Cross Volunteers March in Parade | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 9

Red Cross volunteers march in a parade in Rock Hill in early 1942, urging other citizens to share in "the dirty work" of helping win the war. Courtesy of the Winthrop University Archives.

Columbia Army Air Base | History of SC Slide Collection

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Columbia Army Air Base | History of SC Slide Collection

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Columbia Army Air Base, aerial view, in 1943. Courtesy of the South Carolina State Museum.

Parade of Marine Corps Recruits at Parris Island | History of SC Slide Collection

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Parade of Marine Corps Recruits at Parris Island | History of SC Slide Collection

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The Parris Island facilities for training Marines also expanded enormously during WWII. Here, new recruits march on the main parade grounds during a 1943 rainstorm. Courtesy of the United States...

Winston Churchill Tours Fort Jackson | History of SC Slide Collection

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Winston Churchill Tours Fort Jackson | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 5

Winston Churchill toured Fort Jackson during his visit to the United States in 1942. Courtesy of the South Carolina Department of Education.

Parade of Recruits at Fort Jackson | History of SC Slide Collection

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Parade of Recruits at Fort Jackson | History of SC Slide Collection

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The military buildup of World War II greatly expanded the facilities at the former Camp Jackson of the First World War. Renamed Fort Jackson in 1940, the Columbia facility became one of the main...

Buildup of Troops at Fort Jackson | History of SC Slide Collection

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Buildup of Troops at Fort Jackson | History of SC Slide Collection

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The buildup of troops at Fort Jackson, even before the attack on Pearl Harbor, was the beginning of the many changes that World War II brought to Columbia, and indeed to all of South Carolina. The...

President Roosevelt Visits Columbia, SC | History of SC Slide Collection

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President Roosevelt Visits Columbia, SC | History of SC Slide Collection

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt occasionally stopped in Columbia on his train trips between Washington, D.C., and his home in Warm Springs, Georgia. But in January 1940, as the war expanded in Europe...

Camp Jackson Postcard, 1917 | History of SC Slide Collection

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Camp Jackson Postcard, 1917 | History of SC Slide Collection

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The outbreak of World War I in Europe in 1914 at first did not seem to involve Americans. President Woodrow Wilson, who had spent part of his boyhood in Columbia, promised to keep the U.S. out of the...

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SC Veterans in History, Part 7

Episode 7

In 2009, student filmmaker Morgan Adams created a film about the Doolittle Raiders for the National History Day Competition. After the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, the United States government asked...

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Karen Rutherford's Photos | Tuskegee Airmen

Episode 5

These photos were provided courtesy of Karen Rutherford. View Karen's story about her father.

Joe Engel | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust Tom Grossman, Part 2 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Tom Grossman, Part 2 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

Tom Grossman, born May 1, 1927 in Budapest, Hungary, discusses his father, who was a retired army officer, and his mother; his two sisters; the interactions of Jews and non-Jewish; antisemitism in...

Joe Engel | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust Tom Grossman, Part 1 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Tom Grossman, Part 1 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

Tom Grossman, born May 1, 1927 in Budapest, Hungary, discusses his father, who was a retired army officer, and his mother; his two sisters; the interactions of Jews and non-Jewish; antisemitism in...

Joe Engel | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust Dientje Kalisky, Part 2 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Dientje Kalisky, Part 2 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

Dientje Kalisky was born in Holland in 1938. Her grandfather and aunt were sent to a concentration camp and never returned. "When I was four we went into hiding. My parents didn't explain what was...

Joe Engel | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust Rudy Herz, Part 2 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Rudy Herz, Part 2 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

Born in Cologne, Germany, in 1925, Rudy Herz heard of Hitler in school when, in 1935, textbooks took on a Germanic nationalistic slant, the Swastika flag was flown, and Jews lost privileges. His...

Joe Engel | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust Luba Goldberg, Part 1 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Luba Goldberg, Part 1 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

Luba Goldberg nee Schreibman was born in 1921 in Romania, not far from Russia. Her family contained many well-respected Romanian doctors. With Romania part of the WWII German Axis, it enacted the same...

Joe Engel | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust Rudy Herz, Part 5 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Rudy Herz, Part 5 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

Born in Cologne, Germany, in 1925, Rudy Herz heard of Hitler in school when, in 1935, textbooks took on a Germanic nationalistic slant, the Swastika flag was flown, and Jews lost privileges. His...

Joe Engel | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust Dientje Kalisky, Part 1 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Dientje Kalisky, Part 1 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

Dientje Kalisky was born in Holland in 1938. Her grandfather and aunt were sent to a concentration camp and never returned. "When I was four we went into hiding. My parents didn't explain what was...

Joe Engel | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust Renee Kolender | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Renee Kolender | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

Born near Warsaw in 1922, Renee Kolender experienced a good childhood until war broke out, ending school, ending everything. Children were taken from the streets to work each day. Her family was...

Joe Engel | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust Peter Becker, Part 2 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Peter Becker, Part 2 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

Peter Becker was born in Munich in 1929. At the special Nazi school he attended, students were taught to be political or military leaders and that Hitler was the savior who would lift Germany up. In...