... that died, but also some Japanese Americans were shot by guards for allegedly resisting orders. (www.pbs.org) (http://members.aol.com/Amerwar/justice.htm?) The Second way that the U.S. retaliated to Pearl Harbor was turning the tide of the war. The first time that we got Japan after the surprise attack was the "Doolittle Raid". The raid was a small operation led by Lieutenant Colonel James H. ... and Allied morale. It was the first strike back from Pearl Harbor and it proved that the Japanese could be attacked. It was the start of turning the tide in the war for the Allied side. The Bat...

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... other awards, making a total of about 18,000 awards (Decorations of the 100th/442nd "Go For Broke" Combat Team. http://www.culturalbridge.com/Nikkei442nd.htm). It was the right choice for the 442nd to fight for the United States because Japan did a bad deed by bombing Pearl Harbor. Before the attack, the U.S. didn't even want to get involved in the war and wanted to stay "neutral" (Portillo, Michael. Page 1). ... it is just right to fight for the country you are currently living in rather than the place you left. By choosing to fight for the US and America, the 442nd Combat Team gained ...

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... both those of Japanese descent and those who were not. On this date, the Japanese attacked the Pearl Harbor military base in Hawaii. After this event occurred, the United States joined the Allied Powers, consisting of Great Britain and the Soviet Union, and declared war against Japan. This event was a direct attack on the US, killing over two thousand people and destroyed dozens of ships and aircrafts ... . Not only were they not informed of their accusations, there was no accusations against them. In the Declaration of Independence, which was the original layout for American government ...

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... changed when, in 1941, Japanese fighter planes attacked the United States naval base Pearl Harbor and plunged the United States into World War Two against Japan. With Executive Order 9066, Japanese-Americans who lived on the West coast of the United States were forced from their homes to various internment camps located in the wastelands through out the Midwest. In the blink of an eye, Japanese-Americans (many ... of whom were United States World War One veterans) not only suffered the ... in Prisoners without Trial, "...had they been left in California, many of these... would be runni...

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... to think about a community life style in relocation camps. Many Americans know about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 (Armor & Wright 11), but what they many not know is that because of that attack the United States Government thought it would be in best interest of for everyone to have this group of people (people of Japanese blood) evacuated from their ... homes, towns, communities, etc. and sent them to temporary living areas. It was for the safety of America and for the supposed "protection" of the Japanese and Japanese-Americans from the public in case of any ...

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... War II. Jeanne was seven when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and created the calamity that forced about 110,000 Japanese Americans to go away from their homes. She remembers the pressure of camp life "they had no way of dignity and privacy, the loss of authority, and the pressure to sign loyalty oaths. She also tells ... what she took away from Manzanar after it was closed "a feeling of shame and determination to be accepted as an American. I. Pearl Harbor bombed- Japanese A. Papa captured B. Terminal Island C. Rid- ... possible. Jeanne does not want to think about Manzanar, but as she gr...

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... the West Coast of the U.S. The racial tension between Japanese Americans and non-Asians only grew in the following years. After the Pearl Harbor attack, which was suspected to have been helped by "fifth column" Japanese spies, the American public separated itself from the Asian public, by way of segregating Asians from public places. The general consensus of the time was that Japanese Americans could and would sabotage the United States for the ... to America. In conclusion, Japanese seclusion in society, and internment was due to the stigma that had only become stronger after the attac...

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... Pima Indian living in Arizona. The beginning of the war came with the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The declaration of war with Japan affected many people in America in a number of ways. The majority of U.S. citizens hated Japan and all Asians for what they did in Hawaii. Japanese Americans were affected negatively by the war and the wartime sentiment against Asians. The American general public could not ... . Her citizenship did not matter when Executive Order 9066 was signed by Franklin Roosevelt in February of 1942. The order was activated after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. The orde...

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... others, are evidence of America's prejudice towards the Japanese. Racism, despite any claims to the contrary, was the actual motivation for interning the Japanese in camps. In 1941 the Japanese living in the United States had cause to worry: war with the country of their ancestry seemed inevitable. On the day Pearl Harbor was bombed a telegram was sent to the President from the J.A.C.L. addressing this concern. "In this ... And I knew that I was there for no crime other than the color of my skin and the shape of my eyes."(#47) These words, said by Edison Uno (past president of the Japane...

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... that not all white Americans were racist against the Japanese Americans. Some welcomed them back with open arms. "Members of Christian Churches provided references for housing and work." 2 Their neighbors gathered food for them and opened their homes to them.2 The discrimination the Japanese immigrants faced was hard, but after the bombing of Pearl Harbor the situation became much worse for them. The internment camps were an experience that most ... of the Japanese Americans could have lived without. The United States always claims that we are better ... ...

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... changed by one of the most shocking and unforgettable events in the history of the world, the bombing of Pearl Harbor (Exploring the Japanese American Internment). On this fateful day, the Japanese conducted a surprise military strike and bombing on the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. For the most part, the bombing of Pearl Harbor will go down in history as the tipping point of the tumultuous relationship between the United States and Japan ... and in particular, the event that triggered the United States ... ...

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... situation hits more closely to home than the other two cases, simply because of the nature of the events that took place. The immediate reaction following Pearl Harbor and even the attack itself, is more directly related to those of September 11th. And even though in 1988, the government agreed to the injustice and awarded compensation to the living victims of internment, I don't believe ... any financial reparations could make up for lost time. I cannot ... help but feel partially responsible for my family's disposition ... ...

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... war II was a hard and trying time for many, but more so for the Japanese in Canada. They became subject to harassment and racism and were let down by their government. The years 1941 through 1945 saw unjust treatment on the race. Twenty-one thousand Japanese were not only relocated from their homes on the coast of BC to the Interior or prairies, all of their belongings ... at auction. They did not receive any of the earnings from their belongings. The attack on Pearl Harbour, which occurred December 7th, 1941, was the most consequential event in the decision to intern the Japanese-Canad...

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... of this new Japanese American civil religion. The internment of many Japanese Americans in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor left many generations with a haunting past. It is in remembering the injustices and what happened that creates a new civil religion for the Japanese American people: "the institutionalization of memory therefore becomes significant in the larger mission of education and healing for Japanese Americans." The ways in which memory is reenacted and ... gave reparations to those who suffered. Along with the acknowledgment and reparations: "the act, toward this end, also est...

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... to live with during this time period. It also helps to open our eyes to the mistakes, and how our government can question itself over some of the issues we were fighting for. The book tells the story from Jeanne Wakatsuki, the main character, and how she and her family struggled to make it through this time ... her. Also what it was like being taken from her home and being put into the Japanese internment camp of Manzanar. It begins with her father being taken away for supposedly supplying oil to Japanese submarines on the coast while he was fishing. It also goes into some detail on how...

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... interned, a nice way of saying they were imprisoned. During World War II, it was wrong for the United States government to intern Japanese- Americans. The daily life of the interned, why this tragic event happened, how it happened and why it was wrong, are all things every American should know! Pearl Harbor was indeed a day that laid in infamy. However, what most people don't know ... Pearl Harbor. After the attacks on Pearl Harbor, a rush of anti- Japanese feelings swept through the country, and rightly so. What were not justified, were the feelings of hatred toward Japanese-Americans!...

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... potential was often underrated. After stunning the Americans and British with a series of victories after Pearl Harbor, the image switched to an enemy that was quite a formidable opponent. Underestimation of Japanese troops was a major factor in the sinking of the great ships, the Repulse and the Prince of Wales. Military commentator Fletcher Pratt describe the Japanese as having "defects of the tubes of the inner ear . . . are generally myopic." One ... to leveraged great influenced were often affected by racism in their actions. Many remarks made by these leaders reflected the various...

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... Looking For by le thi diem th y represent characters who use their imaginations to escape the hardships of reality and into a place of comfort and stability. American soldier Paul Berlin often imagines his life prior to Vietnam, allowing himself to break away from the cruel reality of war, same with Mine Okubo who is placed in a Japanese-American internment camp after the bombing of Pearl ... Harbor. Her freedom was taken, and the only way for her to escape was through her remembrance of the past and what life was like before the camps. As for the young Vietnamese girl in The Gangster W...

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... the 1920s and 1930s, showed the readers another side of the life of immigrants in the United States. Her story reflected the gap between the Issei and Nisei – first and second generation, and the difficulties of being a Japanese American during this time period. In addition, the Japanese relocation to Idaho after the attack on Pearl Harbor on 1941 presented one family's strength when facing adversity, and the willingness to sacrifice for the ... country they love. The first thing ... ...

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... sentiment diminished slightly when Japan entered the war on the side of the allies. However, when in 1924 Japanese citizens were excluded from immigrating to the United States, the old prejudices were again on the rise. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, fear of Japanese-American citizens escalated to a fever pitch. It was thought that many of them were sleeper agents waiting for instructions for attacks on American soil. "Denise ... ", in Okita's poem, feels this way when she accuses her friend of "giving secrets away to the enemy" (1019). After ... ...

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... held captive people of many different origins, the majority of the prisoners were Japanese-Americans. There were ten different relocation centres, which were scattered all over the interior West, in isolated desert areas of Arizona, California, Utah, Idaho, Colorado, and Wyoming. Why were they set up?? After the bombing of Pearl Harbour in December 1941, the United States was gripped by war hysteria. ... This was especially strong along the Pacific coast of the U.S., where residents feared more Japanese attacks on their cities, homes and businesses. Leaders in California, Oregon and Wash...

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... by real scares such as the shelling of the coast near Santa Barbara by a Japanese submarine, and by various false alarms. Americans assumed that a network of Japanese informers, living on the Hawaiian Islands had aided the attack on Pearl Harbor in December of 1941. Then, when the Japanese bombed other allied ... short notice to minelayers and torpedo boats. The bait boxes in these boats were built to conceal a pair of surface torpedo tubes with self-propelling torpedoes. Between the bait boxes and gunwales there was room for two or more torpedoes. The boats could also carry 30 mines wit...

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... many homes were destroyed. The Japanese government chose to attack the United States, at Pearl Harbor, with a great military force. Since that attack and until the end of the war, most Japanese-American citizens were interned in camps on the West Coast. They were forced out of their homes and held in military like camps (Document 1). For the Americans, this was the only choice for the people who in our eyes ... were dangerous. Given the circumstances during the war, I would have favored the ... ...

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... women of the community notice the boats returning. The Japanese have bombed Pearl Harbor. Jeanne does not know what this meant at the time, but her father ("Papa") is taken away from her on the grounds that he might be delivering goods and secrets to the Japanese. Jeanne's mother ("Mama") moves her remaining children to Terminal Island, where they live among other Japanese Americans for the first time. There ... , Jeanne is afraid of the ... , they are covered in sand. Jeanne's brother Woody sets everyone to work plugging up holes in the floor of the cabins and cleaning up the sand. The ...

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... threat to national security but I believe that was just an excuse. The internment camps was a discrimination to all minorities. It violated their rights. "Civil Right," everything our country stands for. But we were hypocrites the moment we took the Japanese Americans into the camps. We should have considered the importance of civil rights in everyone's lives before we made this move ... . The Americans should have also consider the U.S. Constitution as a document that describes the basic rights of U.S. citizens. The Bill of Rights and selected amendments point ... attacked Pearl Harbo...

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