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Living Conditions Of Japanese Americans During World War II
After the December 7 1941, Japanese attack on the American naval fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, the United States was thrust into World War II -1939-45, and everyday life across the country was dramatically altered. Gas and clothing were rationed. Communities conducted scrap metal drives. To help build the armaments necessary to win the war, women found employment as electricians, welders and riveters in defense plants. Japanese Americans had their rights as citizens stripped from them. People in the United states grew fast dependent on radio reports for news of the fighting overseas. And, while popular entertainment served to demonize the nation’s enemies, it also was viewed as an escapist outlet that allowed Americans brief respites from war worries. …show more content…
Then you go to the trenches where the soldiers lived day by day they were getting sick and the dirt had everything in them and the nurse that was out there didn't have anything to cure them they had cuts and wounds that were infected from the dirt all the could do was wrap them and they were dieing slowly as they seen this the war was starting people were dieing off left and right. So the living conditions were pretty rough and a time where lives was taken because of diseases . What came with this was family getting moves out their homes and getting moves into concentration camps and lives were taken because they cause they had to move out their house because of war and had to have solider in their homes this was only the beginning. Harsh thing were

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