Along with the rest of the world, the United States and South Carolina experienced economic instability during this period. As a result, political instability and worldwide conflict consumed the world in the 1940s. Following World War II, the United S...

Grade(s): 5

Subject(s): Social Studies

Year: 2019

The Invasion of Poland
The Invasion of Poland

Lesson

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

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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

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...

D-Day: 40 Years Ago | Carolina Journal (1984)
Episode 1

Video

Part 1 of the D-Day: 40 Years Ago special of Carolina Journal. Veterans from both Axis and Allied powers gather to remember their experiences on D-Day, and to honor the fallen.
Luba Goldberg

Video

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...
Reflections of Columbia
Episode 6

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The addition of Columbia’s new Army training ground, Camp Jackson, would have a significant impact on the city. The U.S. was being drawn into World War Two, and many of the Army’s soldiers would come...
Pearl Harbor | South Carolina's Greatest Generation
Episode 2

Video

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...
Victory | South Carolina's Greatest Generation
Episode 9

Video

Thirty three days after the death of President Roosevelt, Germany surrenders. The allies celebrate their victory over the Nazis. In 1945, after the two atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and...