Hancock U.S. History 1302 Wednesday 1800-2100 15 October 2008 After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941‚ the United States was filled with panic. Along the Pacific coast of the U.S.‚ where residents feared more Japanese attacks on their cities‚ homes‚ and businesses‚ this feeling was especially great. During the time preceding World War II‚ there were approximately 112‚000 persons of Japanese descent living in California‚ Arizona‚ and coastal Oregon and Washington. These
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Despite the question of morality raised by the japanese internment camps‚ the United States government was completely justified in the relocation of the japanese-American citizens given the situation the entire country was placed in during World War II. Critics of the japanese interment must take into consideration the dire position the United States was caught in after the bombing of Pearl Harbor had recently taken place. A number of Japanese-Americans located on the west coast were later discovered
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The decision to imprison Japanese Americans was a popular one in 1942. It was supported not only by the government‚ but it was also called for by the press and the people. In the wake of the bombing of Pearl Harbor‚ Hawaii‚ on December 7‚ 1941‚ Japan was the enemy. Many Americans believed that people of Japanese Ancestry were potential spies and saboteurs‚ intent on helping their mother country to win World War II. "The Japanese race is an enemy race‚" General John DeWitt‚ head of the Western
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The decision to begin a Japanese internment was initiated because of the distrust people felt towards Japanese after the attack on Pearl Harbor. This was their first military involvement in the war‚ and before Pearl Harbor the war probably seemed like something far away that wouldn’t include the United States in battle. When the first affects of Pearl Harbor started to wear off‚ people become wary of the Japanese. Naturally‚ the Americans felt a distrust towards them after the government from their
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How to Grow Alum Crystals Background Information A crystal or crystalline solid is a solid material‚ whose constituent atoms‚ molecules‚ or ions are arranged in an orderly repeating pattern extending in all three spatial dimensions. The scientific study of crystals and crystal formation is crystallography. The process of crystal formation via mechanisms of crystal growth is called crystallization or solidification. Potassium alum (Aluminum Potassium Sulfate) is the white crystalline natural
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Japanese Canadian Internment The Japanese Canadian internment was the forced removal of more than 22‚000 Japanese Canadians during the Second World War by the government of Canada. Following the December 7‚ 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor‚ prominent British Columbians‚ including members of municipal government offices‚ local newspapers and businesses called for the internment of the Japanese. In British Columbia‚ there were fears that some Japanese who worked in the fishing industry were charting the
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FYI (This is a biased written paper written if one were to defend Japanese Internment) The Necessity of Japanese Internment Much controversy has been sparked due to the internment of the Japanese people. Many ask whether it was justified to internment them. It is a very delicate issue that has two sides‚ those who are against the internment of the Japanese-Americans and those who are for it. With World War II raging in the East‚ America was still‚ for the most part‚ very inactive in the war.
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The core of the Japanese experience in Canada lies in the shameful and almost undemocratic suspension of human rights that the Canadian government committed during World War II. As a result‚ thousands of Japanese were uprooted to be imprisoned in internment camps miles away from their homes. While only a small percentage of the Japanese living in Canada were actually nationals of Japan‚ those who were Canadian born were‚ without any concrete evidence‚ continuously being associated with a country
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The Japanese internment that occurred during the 1940s under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was partially a result of the profiling of Japanese people as spies or untrustworthy similar to the assumptions made about characteristics a woman would have that would make her more likely to be accused of witchcraft. The Internment of Japanese Americans and citizens during World War II exhibits starkingly similar parallels to the witch hunts Arthur Miller examined in his play The Crucible due to the
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The Internment of Japanese Americans The internment of Japanese Americans is an example of how one historical event can influence the start of another. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor created fear throughout the nation. Newspaper articles depicted Americans of Japanese descent as untrustworthy and a danger to the nation. They warned that Japanese Americans were serving as spies for their mother country. As hysteria grew‚ eventually all persons of Japanese descent living on the West Coast‚ including
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