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Standard 5-4.7

5-4.7 Summarize the social and political impact of World War II on the American home front and the world, including opportunities for women and African Americans in the work place, the internment of the Japanese Americans, and the changes in national b...

Grade(s): 5

Subject(s): Social Studies

Year: 2011

Title:
Japanese Internment Camps
Japanese Internment Camps

Lesson

Students will discover what it was like to live in internment camps through reading personal accounts of those who lived during that time.

Two Voices and a Tableau: Pearl Harbor and 9/11
Two Voices and a Tableau: Pearl Harbor and 9/11

Lesson

The attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 shocked the nation. Citizens and servicemen were caught off guard and left vulnerable to the Japanese attacks. Sixty years later in 2001, the United States endured...

Elliott White Springs | S.C. Hall of Fame
Elliott White Springs | S.C. Hall of Fame

Video

"There's no such thing as bad publicity..." This remark, attributed to Irish playwright Brendan Behan, sums up the advertising philosophy of noted textile executive Elliott White Springs of Springs...