Standard 7-4.5

7-4.5 Summarize the causes and course of World War II, including drives for empire, appeasement and isolationism, the invasion of Poland, the Battle of Britain, the invasion of the Soviet Union, the "Final Solution," the Lend-Lease program, Pearl Harbo...

Grade(s): 7

Year: 2011

Felix Goldberg | S. C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Born in Poland, Felix Goldberg was captured near Warsaw in 1939 and sent to a German work camp. He worked hard on the farm in the bitter cold with little to eat. Later he was sent to Auschwitz. He...

Murray Price | Generations of Heroes

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World War II Meet Murray Price who was a World War II pilot. Interview by Vaughn Postema from Richland Northeast High School, Columbia, SC. Generations of Heroes was a project that offered South...

Russ Meyne and Richard "Dick" Schneider | Generations of Heroes

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World War II Meet Russ Meyne, a WWII B-17 Pilot and Richard "Dick" Schneider, a Tail Gunner in World War II. Interview by William Schooler from Richland Northeast High School, Columbia, SC...

Lou Fowler | Generations of Heroes

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World War II Meet Lou Fowler and was a World War II POW. Interview by Ryan Riordan from Richland Northeast High School, Columbia, SC. Generations of Heroes was a project that offered South Carolina...

Robert Mills | Generations of Heroes

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World War II Meet Robert Mills. He served in World War II. Interview by Perry McLeod from Richland Northeast High School, Columbia, SC. Generations of Heroes was a project that offered South...

South Carolina Honor Flight | Generations of Heroes

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Inaugural Flight - November 15, 2008. Recorded by Perry McLeod, a history teacher at Richland Northeast High School in Columbia, S.C. Generations of Heroes was a project that offered South Carolina...

Jack Bush | Generations of Heroes

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World War II Jack Bush was a tail gunner in World War II. A tail gunner is a crewman on a military aircraft who defends against enemy fighter attacks from the rear, or "tail", of the plane. Listen to...

Irving Levine | Generations of Heroes

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World War II Irving Levine was a CBI Pilot in World War II. CBI stands for the China-Burma-India Theater. This area was where many pilots flew bombing and transport missions. Interview by Kristen...

The War Begins | Seared Souls: S.C. Voices of the Holocaust

Episode 4

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By 1939, after seizing land in Czechoslovakia and promising England's Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, that he would remain at peace, Adolf Hitler began World War II. Germany invaded Poland and...

Introduction | Seared Souls: S.C. Voices of the Holocaust

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In this introduction to the 10-part documentary, an overview provides the context, and South Carolinians who survived the Holocaust reflect on these events, telling their individual stories.