1. Pick up handouts
Make sure you completed “Rosie the Riveter” cartoon from last class and glue to page 16 of your notebook.

2. Japanese American Internment
Page 19

6. Executive Order 9066 Order by FDR February 19, 1942
Removal of those of Japanese ancestry from CA, Washington, Oregon, & Arizona
120,000 Japanese Americans
2/3 Nisei – Born in this country

9. More than 120,000 Americans of Japanese Ancestry were incarcerated in the following 10 camps scattered throughout Western states during World War II:
Amache (Granada), CO August 24, October 15, Peak population: 7,318.
Gila River, AZ July 20, November 10, Peak Population 13,348.
Heart Mountain, WY August 12, November 10, Peak population 10,767.
Jerome, AR October 6, June 30, Peak population 8,497.
Manzanar, CA March 21, November 21, Peak population 10,046.
Minidoka, ID August 10, October 28, Peak population 9,397.
Poston (Colorado River), AZ May 8, November 28, Peak population 17,814.
Rohwer, AR September 18, November 30, Peak population 8,475.
Topaz (Central Utah), UT September 11, October 31, Peak population 8,130.
Tule Lake, CA May 27, March 20, Peak population 18,789.

11. Military Necessity It was necessary It was not necessary
Fear of another attack
Fear of Japanese Americans would sabotage to aid Japanese
Fear of spies
No actual evidence
Other enemy races not interned
Not a single Japanese spy ever discovered
442nd became most decorated unit in WWII –served with honor

12. Japanese Internment video

13. Release
Japanese Americans were released in 1945 & 1946 (3 years later)
Were required to answer questions about loyalty to the United States before released.

14. Fred Korematsu v. United States
Japanese American who refused internment.
Arrested and filed a case
Asked: Did the President & Congress go too far with E.O. 9066
Court ruled in 1944 that the need to protect Americans outweighed individual rights
Raced based exclusion was justified in a time of war

15. The Civil Rights Act of 1988 (HR442) awarded redress to all surviving internees or their relatives. President George Bush sent this formal apology letter along with a $20,000 check.

16. Document Analysis
Use the analysis chart to analyze the documents involving Japanese Internment.
Letter – must analyze
Pamphlets – pick one
Pictures or Watercolor/Newspaper Article – pick one
Once you have completed analysis chart answer the questions on the back.
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