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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 bombed Pearl Harbor.
 * Franklin D. Roosevelt declared war on Japan.
 * Anyone living in the U.S. above the age of 14.
 * Yes.
 * If war is declared between the U.S. and any foreign nation or government, the president can make a public proclamation that all natives, citizens, or denizens above the age of fourteen who are within the U.S. and not actually naturalized, shall be liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured, or removed as alien enemies. They confined them to the U.S.
 * The U.S. was able to inter alien enemies and take away some of their rights
 * The U.S. declared war on Japan.

Concentration Camps vs Internment Camps Research Questions
What is the difference between a concentration camp and an internment camp?

How were internment camps organized?
 * Internment camps hold people to protect the civilians, but concentration camps made the civilians do hard labor and exterminated them.

Where were the internment camps? What types of facilities did the U.S. use to contain alien enemies?
 * They consisted of three divisions, each led by an assistant director, directly supervised by the project director.
 * They were all over the U.S.
 * They used U.S. army posts and they bought unused homes.

German Americans Research Questions
How did life change for German Americans after the start of WWII?
 * They were taken from their homes and sent to internment camps.

How were they treated by Americans and others in the US? Why were they treated this way?
 * They were treated like they were the enemy.
 * Because people thought that they would betray the U.S. to the Germans.

Were German Americans sympathetic to or against Hitler and the Nazis?
 * They were against Hitler and the Nazis because Hitler was killing a lot of people.

How did their support of or lack of support for Hitler affect their lives in the US?
 * It didn't effect them at all because the U.S. couldn't trust them if they said they supported Hitler or not.

Notes about personal story one.
 * Took away the father, made the family stay in the basement of a relative for 2 years without their father, sent family, without Mr. Eiserloh, to an internment camp in New York, stole their belongings, reunited with Mr. Eiserloh in internment camp in Texas, Mr. Eiserloh was beaten, family sent home.

Notes about personal story two.

Notes about personal story three.

Notes about personal story four.

Notes about personal story five.

Personal Narrative

We, the Furhardts, were living peacefully in Virginia. We had no idea the FBI were watching our every move. My wife just had a child named Andy. I, Mr. Furhardt, worked as a shoe-maker for four years. I was thirty-two, and my wife was thirty. I was very good at my job and was surprised when my boss asked me to resign. A few days later, the FBI showed up at our house and forced us to leave. They thought that we were helping the Nazis. We packed as much as we could as fast as we could, and they sent us to the Crystal City internment camp in Texas. They sent me, separated from my family, back to Germany. When I arrived in Germany, they stole my belongings, stripped my clothes, and beat me. I felt depressed and I was very homesick and missed my family. I went on a train to Berlin to try to find my old home. I was fearful of what surprise I may find in Berlin. As I traveled in the train, alone and cold, an allied bomb blew up dangerously close to the boxcar. The train tipped over, and some of the travelers died. My leg got hurt. Soon after, the war ended I reurned to America, wondering if my family had lived. I looked for them for a long time. I called all my relatives, searching desperately. After two and a half years, I finally found my wife, but sadly, little Andy died in the camp. Now I live with the pain of the camp forever in my soul.