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US Enters WWII Research Questions
Summarize the events of December 7, 1941. Describe the actions taken by the United States government following the attack on Pearl Harbor. What is an ‘alien enemy’? Were all of the detainees considered ‘alien enemies’? How and why was the United States able to inter people of Japanese and German descent? What was the US government able to do as a result of Proclamations 2525 and 2526? What were the circumstances surrounding Proclamation 2525 and 2526?
 * Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in Hawaii by surprise. It was a major point in the war.
 * The next day on December 8 the United States declared war on Japan and President Roosevelt gave the United States a speech about the attack on Pearl Harbor.
 * When there is a war between the United States and another nation, any threat against the United States from a person that person would be held as a prisoner.
 * Yes,all of the detainees were considered as alien enemies.
 * The Proclamation says that is the United States is in war with another country and the President goes public with a proclamation, all the citizens that are not naturalized in the United States can be removed as alien enemies.
 * If you were original from the nation that the United States is at war with, you can be arrested and sent to internment camps if you did something wrong.
 * That the United States could not trust any other country and the American people could not trust anyone around them. The United States could not trust Japan because they were at war with them and the United States could not trust Germany because Germany wanted the United States involved in the war.

Concentration Camps vs Internment Camps Research Questions
What is the difference between a concentration camp and an internment camp? How were internment camps organized? Where were the internment camps? What types of facilities did the US use to contain alien enemies?
 * At the internment camps, the alien enemies weere just held as prisoner and at concentration camps they had to work and they were killed.
 * THey had houses and they had hired people to order the alien enemies around.
 * The internment camps were all over the US, even in Hawaii.
 * In the internment camps, they used apartments.

German Americans Research Questions
How did life change for German Americans after the start of WWII? How were they treated by Americans and others in the US? Why were they treated this way? Were German Americans sympathetic to or against Hitler and the Nazis? How did their support or lack of support for Hitler affect their lives in the US? Notes about personal story one. Notes about personal story two. Notes about personal story three. Notes about personal story four. Notes about personal story five.
 * All the German Americans were treated as if they were spies for the Nazis.
 * They were treated badly and like they did something wrong by other Americans.
 * The United States declared war on Germany so they thought that all the Germans were spyin on the United States for the Nazis.
 * German Americans were again Hitler and the Nazis because they were killing a lot of people in concentration camps.
 * It did not affect their lives because the United States did not trust the German Americans.
 * Mathia got arrested and left his wife behind. His wife and his kids decided it would be better if they were all together. His wife had a baby and was sick.
 * The father's daughter didn't know in the beginning if he was a Nazi or a fifth column agent of the Third Reich. He was interned during World War II. He wasn't a German spy or a Nazi, he was just at the wrong place at the wrong time.
 * Max Ebel was sent to an internment camp.
 * A man named Peter was forced on a ship against his family's will. They were to be excluded from America and were sent to an internment camp.
 * The FBI took Garber away and left his wife to watch his kids. They were going to take his wife but they was no one to watch the kids.