TRUE Unemployment reduced to almost 1 percent. Women typically got better jobs than they had before. The marriage rate AND the divorce rate climbed. The "GI Bill of Rights" gave soldiers new educational opportunities. The economic position of African-American workers improved. Japanese Americans fought with distinction and earned many commendations.

FALSE Many people moved to the South. More than half of the workers in the economy were women. In the military, combat units were racially integrated. In the case of Korematsu v. U.S., the Supreme Court ruled that putting Japanese- Americans in internment camps was unconstitutional.

Japanese “Relocation” Racism before Pearl Harbor –Nativism Executive Order 9066 –Feb 19, internment camps 120,000 Japanese American relocated 2/3 of internees were American citizens War Relocation Authority (WRA)

10 Internment Camps

Japanese American experiences –Internment Camps Barren lands, few belongings Families sometimes split up –Japanese Americans in military 442nd infantry combat team—well decorated –Lost $2 billion in property and possessions –Challenges to internment Korematsu case (1944)—internment is constitutional 1988—reparations paid to surviving internees ($20,000 each)

Japanese Internment: Notification, Relocation, & Internment Photos

Notification

Relocation

Internment Camps