A World War, Part 1 - Introduction | South Carolinians in WW II - Episode 1

German soldiers were surrendering so fast, they just would surrender a whole unit and we couldn't handle them all. The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) was announcing "Today in Europe, the war is over!" Veterans recall the end of the war in Europe, and one recalls how four Americans who had been held as prisoners of war escaped. 

Standards

• 5.3 Demonstrate an understanding of the economic, political, and social effects of World War II, the Holocaust, and their aftermath (i.e., 1930–1950) on the United States and South Carolina.
  • 5.3.CX Contextualize the technological and geographic influence on military strategies in the Pacific and European theaters of war of World War II.
• 8.5.CO Compare South Carolina and U.S. wartime contributions and demobilization after World War II.
• USHC.4.CO Develop a comparative analysis of the motives for and outcomes of American policies regarding foreign intervention.

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