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War and Relocation

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“The attack on Pearl Harbor created fear among many Americans, especially along the West coast, that Japanese Americans might commit acts of sabotage. These fears seemed racially motivated, since there was no evidence that Japanese Americans were disloyal. Nonetheless, Roosevelt issued an Executive Order forcing Japanese Americans to relocate to internment camps. In the camps, they lived in primitive and crowded conditions. Roosevelt justified these measures as a military necessity. The Supreme Court upheld these relocations in Korematsu v. U.S.

Korematsu was a Japanese American convicted of continuing to remain in a restricted area. He believed his constitutional rights had been violated. The Supreme Court upheld Roosevelt’s order on the grounds that constitutional liberties may be limited in wartime.”

~ The Key to Understanding U.S. History and Government

Questions:

1- What had the attack on Pearl Harbor created? ________________________________________________________________________

2- In what part of the United States, were Americans most concerned? ________________________________________________________________________

3- What did Americans believe about Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbor? ________________________________________________________________________

4- What did these fears seem to be based on? ________________________________________________________________________

5- What did President Roosevelt do in response to these fears? ________________________________________________________________________

6- Describe the internment camps. ________________________________________________________________________

7- In what case did the Supreme Court uphold the relocations of Japanese Americans? ________________________________________________________________________

8- Who was Korematsu? ________________________________________________________________________

9- What did Korematsu believe? ________________________________________________________________________

10- What did the Supreme Court rule in Korematsu v. U.S.? ________________________________________________________________________

Analyze the chart:

|The Draft: |

|All men between 18 and 45 were liable for military service. |

|One million African Americans served in segregated units and for the first time, women could also enlist. |

|Wartime Production: |

|Special advisory boards managed wartime production. |

|Essential goods like gasoline were rationed. |

|The Labor Force: |

|The draft and the expansion of production ended the Great Depression. |

|Women, African Americans, and other minorities worked in factories as other workers went to war. |

|The Financial Cost: |

|The war cost $350 billion – ten times the cost of World War I. |

|Americans bought war bonds to finance the war. |

|The U.S. changed from a creditor to a debtor nation. |

|~ The Key to Understanding U.S. History |

Identify five ways in which World War II changed the United States:

1- ________________________________________________________________________

2- ________________________________________________________________________

3- ________________________________________________________________________

4- ________________________________________________________________________

5- ________________________________________________________________________

Do You Remember?

|Hitler’s Invasion of the Soviet Union: |

|Hitler’s greatest mistake(invading the Soviet Union and declaring war on the U.S. before defeating Britain |

|D-Day: |

|On June 6, 1944 – “D-Day” – Allied troops landed in France |

|American, British, and Free French forces then invaded Germany from the west, while the Soviet forces invaded from the east; Germany |

|surrendered in May 1945 |

|The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb: |

|Fearing that an invasion of the Japanese islands would lead to a million American casualties, President Harry Truman decided to use the atomic|

|bomb against Japan |

|On August 6, 1945, the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and on August 9, a second bomb exploded over Nagasaki |

|The Nuremberg Trials: |

|The Allies put the surviving Nazi leaders on trial for “crimes against humanity” in Nuremberg, Germany |

|The Nuremberg Trials demonstrated that individuals are responsible for their actions, even in times of war and tried and punished Nazi leaders|

|for the committing crimes against humanity during the Holocaust |

Questions:

1- What was Hitler’s greatest mistake? Why? ________________________________________________________________________

2- What was D-Day? ________________________________________________________________________

3- How did the opening of a second front affect Germany? ________________________________________________________________________

4- Why did President Truman decide to drop the atomic bombs? ________________________________________________________________________

5- What were the Nuremberg Trials and what did the trials demonstrate? ________________________________________________________________________

6- What crimes against humanity did the Nazis commit? ________________________________________________________________________

|During World War II, women and minorities made economic gains mainly |Which precedent was established by the Nuremberg war crimes trials? |

|because |National leaders can be held responsible for crimes against humanity. |

|a shortage of traditional labor created new opportunities in the |Only individuals who actually commit murder during a war can be guilty|

|workplace |of a crime. |

|more educational opportunities increased the number of skilled workers|Defeated nations cannot be forced to pay reparations. |

|in these groups |Defeated nations can be occupied by the victors. |

|labor unions successfully demanded equal opportunities for these | |

|groups |In 1988, Congress voted to pay $20,000 to each of the surviving |

|new civil rights legislation forced businesses to change their hiring |Americans of Japanese descent who were interned during World War II |

|practices |because |

| |the danger of war with Japan no longer existed |

|A major cause of the internment of Japanese Americans during World War|all of the interned Japanese Americans eventually became American |

|II was |citizens |

|national segregation policies |the World Court ordered the United States to pay reparations |

|immigration quotas |many Americans believed the internment was unjust and unnecessary |

|racial prejudice | |

|economic depression |As World War II was ending, the United States decided to join the |

| |United Nations mainly because the United States |

|A violation of civil rights that occurred in the United States during |sought to meet the American public’s overwhelming demand for |

|World War II was the |free-trade agreements |

|arrests made as a result of the Palmer raids |wanted to continue to play the same role it had in the League of |

|passage of an open immigration law |Nations |

|internment of Japanese Americans |recognized that efforts to achieve world peace required United States |

|forced removal of Native American Indians from their reservations |involvement |

| |wanted to stop the growing influence of newly independent developing |

|President Harry Truman’s decision to use atomic bombs against Japan |nations |

|was primarily based on his belief that | |

|an invasion of Japan would result in excessive casualties | |

|Germany would refuse to surrender in Europe | |

|an alliance was developing between Japan and the Soviet Union | |

|Japan was in the process of developing its own atomic weapons | |

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Analyze the following images:

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Explain the meaning of the political cartoon.

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Explain the photograph.

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Explain the meaning of the political cartoon. ______________________________________________________________________________

[pic]Explain the meaning of the cartoon.

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