Japanese Internment

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Japanese Internment

• On the paper you were given as you entered
  completely answer the following question?
• Imagine you are a Japanese-American living at
  that time. How would you have felt when Japan
  bombed Pearl Harbor? Explain why?

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Japanese Internment

• After Japans attack on Pearl Harbor, many
  Californians began to fear that
  Japanese-Americans were spying for Japan.
  President Roosevelt responded to pressures from
  West Coast politicians to do something about
  these fears by signing an Executive Order. This
  law required all Japanese-Americans living within
  200 miles of the Pacific Coast to move out of
  their homes and into internment camps in
  Colorado, Utah, Arkansas and other interior
  states. More than 100,000 Japanese Americans,
  citizens and noncitizens, lost their homes and
  possessions in this relocation.

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Japanese Internment
The newsreel we are going to watch was made by
the government sometime in the middle of 1942 to
explain the governments reasons and strategies
for interning (holding) Japanese Americans. This
was before television was widespread, and long
before computers and the internet! While we
watch complete the section under Government
Newsreel http//www.youtube.com/watch?vja5o5dea
rdA Questions after viewing 1. What is the
reason for internment of Japanese Americans
according to the newsreel during the Second World
War? 2. Who do you think was the audience for
this newsreel? What was the governments purpose
for creating it? 3. How does the newsreel portray
internment? Is it positive or negative?
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Japanese Internment

• Look inside the purple folder on your desk!
• Now you are going to read Documents B and C.
  Read and complete the section under The Munson
  Report and The Crisis Article.
• Questions
• What do these documents say is the reason for
  internment?
• Do you find these documents more or less trust
  worthy than the government newsreel? Why or why
  not?
• Why is the date of the Munson report important?

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Japanese Internment

• Now you are going to read Documents D and E.
  Read and complete the section under Korematsu v.
  United States and Personal Justice Denied.
• Questions
• What is the final hypothesis of why the Japanese
  Americans were interned?
• Which of these documents do you think has a
  better explanation of Japanese internment? Why?
• Why were the Japanese Americans interned during
  World War II?

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Japanese Internment
On the back of your paper answer the following
questions 1. Using all of the documents we
have investigated, write what you think is the
reason the Japanese Americans were interned
during WWII .Give evidence from the
documents. 2. Was the government justified in
taking this action? Explain.
Manzanar http//www.youtube.com/watch?vXkeXCQkro_
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