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In defense of democracy, a government may need to confront aggression and ask its citizens for sacrifice in wars and providing foreign aid that, in turn, affects the practice of democracy at home. To make informed political decisions about when and ho...

Grade(s): 9, 10, 11, 12

Subject(s): Social Studies

Year: 2011

Other Nuclear Disasters And Economic Impacts | Chernobyl Event: An Update At 35 Years

Episode 5

Video

Grades: 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

The panel compares the Chernobyl accident with other nuclear disasters throughout human history, and talks about the economic impacts in Russian-Ukrainian relations.

Effects On People And Wildlife | Chernobyl Event: An Update At 35 Years

Episode 4

Video

Grades: 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

The panel discusses how the Chernobyl incident has affected the lives of people, plants, and wildlife in the surrounding regions of Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia. The panel also compares the lives of...

How Has Russia Changed After The Chernobyl Incident? | Chernobyl Event: An Update At 35 Years

Episode 3

Video

Grades: 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

The panel discusses how the Chernobyl incident changed Russia’s political policies, as well as understanding the cultural and scientific impacts of the incident.

Introduction | Chernobyl Event: An Update At 35 Years

Episode 1

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Grades: 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

Host Angel Malone introduces the panel members, and sets the stage for the discussion on the largest nuclear disaster in human history – the Chernobyl incident. The disaster at Chernobyl caused...

Japanese Internment Camps

Lesson

Grades: 5, 7

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

South Carolina Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust - Teaching Lesson Ten

Lesson

Grades: 7, 11

The Holocaust lessons were created to help students learn about the Holocaust from the testimonies of Holocaust survivors. Lesson 10 provides a glimpse of the after-effects of the experiences that...

South Carolina Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust - Teaching Lesson Nine

Lesson

Grades: 7, 11

The Holocaust lessons were created to help students learn about the Holocaust from the testimonies of Holocaust survivors. Recollections of being rescued by the Red Cross are shared, including being...

South Carolina Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust - Teaching Lesson Eight

Lesson

Grades: 7, 10, 11

The Holocaust lessons were created to help students learn about the Holocaust from the testimonies of Holocaust survivors. Holocaust survivors discuss the determination that was required to survive...

South Carolina Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust - Teaching Lesson Seven

Lesson

Grades: 7, 10, 11

The Holocaust lessons were created to help students learn about the Holocaust from the testimonies of Holocaust survivors. Lesson 7 deals with recollections of the camps, showing how a little bit of...

South Carolina Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust - Teaching Lesson Six

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Grades: 7, 10, 11

The Holocaust lessons were created to help students learn about the Holocaust from the testimonies of Holocaust survivors.In lesson 6 the conditions in the camps are described in detail.The goal of...

South Carolina Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust - Teaching Lesson Five

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Grades: 7, 10, 11

The Holocaust lessons were created to help students learn about the Holocaust from the testimonies of Holocaust survivors. Lesson 5 deals with the sad legacy of Concentration Camps.The goal of this...

South Carolina Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust - Teaching Lesson Four

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Grades: 7, 10, 11

The Holocaust lessons were created to help students learn about the Holocaust from the testimonies of Holocaust survivors. Lesson 4 gives first hand accounts of the fear experienced by Jews living in...

South Carolina Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust - Teaching Lesson Three

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Grades: 7, 10, 11

The Holocaust lessons were created to help students learn about the Holocaust from the testimonies of Holocaust survivors. Lesson 3 shares the recollections of a 12-year-old girl whose entire family...

The Enemy in Our Own Backyard!

Lesson

Grades: 11

For many rural counties, the only exposure to the infamous Nazis was from newspapers, newsreels, and other war time propaganda which portrayed these soldiers as arrogant, deceitful, and even evil...

Why Study History - Return to Normandy

Lesson

Grades: 5, 7, 11

With an understanding of the importance of the D-Day invasion to the people of France, and to the world in helping end the tyranny of fascism and the oppression of Hitler’s Nazi regime, answer the...

South Carolina Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust - Teaching Lesson Two

Lesson

Grades: 7, 10, 11

Lesson two deals with the life experiences of young people under Hitler's Germany. The goal of this lesson is to focus on the Holocaust experiences of South Carolinians to personalize the experience...

South Carolina Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust - Teaching Lesson One

Lesson

Grades: 5, 7, 10, 11

The Holocaust lessons were created to help students learn about the Holocaust from the testimonies of Holocaust survivors. Lesson 1 deals with the rememberances of Trude (pronounced Tru-dee) Heller...

Map - Concentration Camps and Killing Centers

Episode 11

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Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

A death camp or killing center was specifically designed for mass murder. This map shows the locations of the concentration camps.

Map - Holocaust Deaths

Episode 10

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

The map shows the numbers of Jews killed by the Nazis in each country.

Holocaust Timeline

Episode 12

Document

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Learn the series of events that led to the Holocaust and related events that occurred during this period.. 1933 January 30: Hitler appointed chancellor of Germany. March 5: Hitler receives strong vote...

Holocaust Glossary | Holocaust Forum

Document

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Learn key terms from the Holocaust. Anti-Semitism. Acts or feelings against Jews; takes the form of prejudice, dislike, fear, discrimination, and persecution. Aryan. A term used by the Nazis to mean a...

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

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

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...

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

Video

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

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...

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

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

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...