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    62% of the internees were United States citizens. During WW2‚ between 110‚000 and 120‚000 japanese people were taken into a concentration camp. Thousands of people were tortured there and were fed very little. Months later after japanese bombed pearl harbor‚ President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed some papers saying all Japanese-Americans to go to the west coast for evacuation. All japanese-Americans were sent to a camp. In 1945‚ They were all allowed to return to the West-Coast. President Franklin

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    The battle destroyed Japan’s naval strength while the Americans only lost 1 aircraft carriers. The victory at Midway‚ aided the allied strategy worldwide. The “Operational Initiative” was passed from the Japanese to the Americans from Pearl Harbor to Midway. During the battle‚ Japan had the largest battleship in the world called the Yamato. This was a decisive World War II naval engagement between the United States and Japan. This battle also taught the importance of the aircraft carriers

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    Excutive Order 9066

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    wood dried out‚ and the gaps would widened. The third reason why I think that executive order 9066 was wrong is because is because a lot of Chinese people suffered for no reason whatsoever. President Roosevelt overreacted over the attack of pearl harbor. President Roosevelt acted to fast when he could’ve just attack Japanese people in Japan‚ even though that by attacking Japan a war between Japan and the USA could’ve started. I think that if Japan and the USA started a war Japan could’ve probably

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    31) After the attack on Pearl Harbor‚ the feelings of animosity in America against Japan increased. By late 1945‚ the Allied leaders met in Germany with news of a secret new weapon‚ called the atomic bomb‚ created by American scientists‚ that was powerful enough to destroy an entire city. However‚ there were some feelings that the bomb was too powerful‚ and the leaders chose instead to send the Potsdam Declaration to Japan warning them to surrender. The Japanese military did not know about the atomic

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    Flying Tigers

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    Jim thought Woody would one day be a good pilot because he was brave enough to take on three Japanese planes all by himself with no bullets. When the day of December 7‚ 1941 hit‚ President Franklin Delano Roosevelt announced on the radio that Pearl Harbor was bombed which was‚ "A Day of Infamy‚" and when Jim heard on the radio he was very disappointed. The next day he decided to bomb Japan to help defend his country by himself‚ but Woody pretended to be the pilot flying the plane because he wanted

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    The United States’ declaration of war on Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor on the date that lives in infamy‚ December 7‚1941‚ was an inevitable decision manifested from Japan’s occupation of Southeast Asia. The two countries’ worsened tension is delineated through the men in Judith L. Pearson’s novel about a corpsman’s service during the war and of his journey aboard Japan’s notorious hellships. Pearson‚ inspired by powerful stories on real life heroes‚ took upon herself to create a complex

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    Battle of Midway

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    The Battle of Midway The Battle of Midway‚ fought in June 4-7 1942‚ only six months after Japan ’s attack on Pearl Harbor‚ and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea‚ the United States Navy decisively defeated an Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) attack against Midway Atoll‚ must be considered one of the most decisive battles of World War II. Fought over and near the tiny U.S. mid-Pacific base at Midway atoll‚ represents the strategic high water mark of Japan ’s Pacific Ocean war. The Battle of

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    A Change in History? Looking back through American history there have been those “what if” moments. Moments where we sit there and think‚ what if that had never happened or if it happened at a different time? Would the world still be the same? Would American’s still have the freedom we have today? One will never know‚ we can only imagine what the world would have been like if a different course was taken. There are a few events in American history that I felt should have gone a little differently

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    Why were Japanese-Americans Intermed? World War II was a tragic international incident. Among those involved included the red‚ white‚ and blue eagle herself‚ America. During the events of World War II‚ Japan attacked Pearl Harbor of the United States. The U.S.’s retorted back with two atomic bombs and a plan to exclude people‚ including citizens‚ of Japanese ancestry in the States. The country that boasts freedom and is in some eyes‚ the embodiment of freedom‚ decided to segregate Japanese-Americans

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    Farewell to Manzanar Book Review " What is Pearl Harbor?"(4). The book I read was Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki. This is what started World War II. During these times Japanese people were treated like animals. They were forced to live in internment camps throughout Executive Order 9066. Executive Order 9066 was approved by Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt‚ this order ordered the military to place Japanese or Japanese Americans into these internment camps. This is where this story takes

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