1. Japanese Internment (Continued)
February Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066
Grants U.S. military the power to ban citizens of Japanese ancestry from areas critical to domestic security (the West Coast)
110,000 Japanese Americans were sent to internment camps
2/3 were Nisei or born in the U.S.
None of them were compensated for their lost property
February Kaorematsu vs. United States
Fred Korematsu refuses to leave his home and his arrested, he appeals
The Supreme Court decides that forced removal is Constitutional until the U.S. can “separate the loyal (Japanese) from the disloyal.”

2. War in the Pacific
Immediately following Pearl Harbor, Japan controls more land than Hitler’s Third Reich
U.S. adopts “Island Hopping” strategy- seize less fortified islands, build airfield, use air force to cut off supply lines to the enemy
Japan adopts “kamikaze” strategy- suicide planes filled with bombs crash into Allied ships
Will Japan Surrender???
Battles of Midway, Iwa Jima, and Okinawa are overwhelming defeats for Japan
Okinawa led to the death of 110,000 Japanese, but also showed that Japanese military leadership would commit ritual suicide before surrendering
Winston Churchill predicts that the cost of a land invasion in Japan would be million American lives (and 3 million Japanese)
The Manhattan Project has finished producing the Atomic Bomb… Should we use it?

3. Atomic Bomb Role Play Notes (10 min)
Part 1- Develop your argument (10 min)
Part 2-Discussion (20 min)
Part 3-President will decide (5 min)
Part 4- How has your view of the atomic bomb changed? (5 min)