event that causes controversy. Vietnam was controversial because it wasn’t a declared war‚ WWI because of the Treaty of Versailles and WWII because of the use of the atomic bomb and Japanese internment. Two months after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor‚ President Franklin Roosevelt issued order 9066; the order to relocate all Japanese Americans to the west coast. The order was extended to all people of Japanese descent‚ and often the relocated children were second or third generation Japanese
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Roosevelt’s Pearl Harbor Address‚ also known as the “Infamy Speech‚” which was given on December 7th‚ 1941. Talk Card: FDR is using a leader talk card while addressing the nation after Japan had bombed Pearl Harbor that would lead to America’s involvement into World War II. In his speech‚ he asks congress for a declaration of war against Japan as a result of the attack. It was important that FDR used a leader talk card because the United States was at a standstill after the attack. The confidence
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After the attack on Pearl Harbor‚ United States started to create anti-Japanese propaganda‚ and a lot of it had to do with racism. Many posters‚ movies‚ and songs encouraged Americans to have hatred toward Japanese. Americans had so much hatred toward Japanese that they looked at them to be monsters. Americans came up with many hatred nicknames‚ such as; nip‚ yellow‚ Jap. Japanese American leaders and anyone who were had anything to do with Japan were arrested. Japanese had a mandatory curfew‚ in
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to them. Branded as "enemy aliens"‚ the Japanese Canadians soon came to the realization that their beloved nation harboured so much hate and anti-Asian sentiments that Canada was becoming just as foreign to them as Japan was. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor‚ the Japanese Canadians lost almost everything‚ including their livelihood. Their dignity as a people was being seriously threatened. Without any proper thought‚ they were aware that resistance against Canada’s white majority would prove to
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MAGIC‚ and they could not afford putting this knowledge in the wrong Japanese hands. Fourth‚ there was evidence to believe‚ provided by code MAGIC that there were Japanese spies living in America. Finally‚ America had to in some way respond to Pearl Harbor for the mental health of its own citizens and protect their home soil. It is easy for people in hindsight to say that the internment of the Japanese Americans was unjust‚ but in wartime‚ this internment was necessary for the
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a significant four-day World War II skirmish that took place in May 1942 II between the Imperial Japanese Navy and naval and air forces from the United States and Australia. Occurring only five months after the surprise Japanese attack on American forces at Pearl Harbor‚ Hawaii‚ and a month before the decisive battle at Midway‚ it was one of the first naval battles fought in the Pacific during World War II. It also marks the first air-sea battle in history. Neither side could see each other. Instead
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The War on the Pacific Front The war on the pacific started on December 7th 1941 when the Japanese military attacked pearl harbor the reason on why they attacked pearl harbor was the American government put an oil embargo which it dropped Japan’s oil supply and import by 80%. The process of this made the Japanese look south for supplies‚ the attack at the base was to weaken the American navy and destroy their oil supply for their ship’s. The reason why America put up the embargo was to make Japan’s
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This article from the New York Times included information about the first decision to create Japanese internment camps. This was used in the documentary to show the initial reactions of the American government to Japanese-Americans after the Attack on Pearl Harbor. Bishop‚ Katharine. “Day of Apology and ‘Sigh of Relief.’” New York Times‚ 11 Aug. 1988. New York Times‚ nytimes.com. This is a New York Times article that supplied information on the documents that President Ronald Reagan signed‚ which granted
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reason why they were fighting. They each had their own reason as for what caused the war problem. Since the Jews were suffering and the U.S. did not mind‚ the attack from the Japanese on Pearl Harbor on December 7‚ 1941 brought the U.S. to be involved in the big war‚ World War 2. In Howard Zinn’s book he blames the U.S. for the attack on Pearl Harbor‚ not the Japanese. That is why he can be controversial sometimes. I believe his arguments are valid because he has facts that can be proven‚ so he does have
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surprised attack Pearl Harbor and eventually lead the United States to join World War Two. On February 19‚ 1942 the Executive Order 9066 was put into action which made internment camps for Japanese Americans‚ German Americans‚ and Italian Americans. These camps lead to incarceration between race‚ necessary trials‚ and the aftermath of the Judicial Branch. Due to the Executive Order 9066 many of Japanese‚ German‚ and Italian descent were forced to relocate into camps. Since the Pearl Harbor incident
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