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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? []
 * **Sunday, December 7** - Washington D.C. - The last part of the Japanese message, stating that diplomatic relations with the U.S. are to be broken off, reaches Washington in the morning and is decoded at approximately 9 a.m. About an hour later, another Japanese message is intercepted. It instructs the Japanese embassy to deliver the main message to the Americans at 1 p.m. The Americans realize this time corresponds with early morning time in Pearl Harbor, which is several hours behind. The U.S. War Department then sends out an alert but uses a commercial telegraph because radio contact with Hawaii is temporarily broken. Delays prevent the alert from arriving at headquarters in Oahu until noontime (Hawaii time) four hours after the attack has already begun.
 * Franklin D. Roosevelt declared war on Japan
 * And, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution of the United States and the said sections of the United States Code, I do hereby further proclaim and direct that the conduct to be observed on the part of the United States toward all natives, citizens, denizens or subjects of Empire of Japan being of the age of fourteen years and upwards who shall be within the United States or within any territories in any way subject to the jurisdiction of the United States and not actually naturalized, who for the purpose of this Proclamation and under such sections of the United States Code are termed alien enemies
 * Yes they were all considered as alien enemies
 * They were able to inter japanese and germans because the president made the Proclamation 2525 stating that if anyone over 14 is part of a country that is in war with the US, they can be "restrained, secured, or removed as an alien enemy"

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? > [] >
 * The US government was givin the authority to contain all Japanese Americans and German Americans in interment camps.
 * All Japanese and German americans were to be contained and removed from the general public due to thier relation to the war.

Concentration Camps vs Internment Camps Research Questions
What is the difference between a concentration camp and an internment camp? > * internment camps were used throughout country but in varied sizes > Where were the internment camps? > *Tule lake, California > What was life like in the internment camps? > * Life in Japanese Internment camps was not a pretty picture. When the United States of America decided to take all Japanese-Americans and put them in internment camps, people were taken away from the places, things, and people that they loved in life. These camps were called America's Concentration Camps, and the U.S. did not realize that they were doing the exact same thing as the nazis > Were there different internment camps for Japanese and Germans? > * Yes > How were the Japanese and German camps similar and different? > * Both camps were killing people >
 * The internment camps were considered detention centers for alien enemies and concentration camps were camps used to force for labor of its prisioners and they were considered "death camps"
 * How were internment camps organized?

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? []
 * Families were split apart
 * They were all threatened and boycotted from most places
 * They were treated like this because the U.S. was in war against Germany, "Every citizen must declare himself American--or traitor"

Were German Americans sympathetic to or against Hitler and the Nazis?
 * Some were and some werent sympathetic to hitler

How did their support of or lack of support for Hitler affect their lives in the US?
 * Hitler made their lives miserable in the U.S. because the United States declared war against Germany and the U.S.A. did not trust any German-American unless they declare themselves as a true American citizen and would remain loyal to the U.S.

Notes about personal story one. Notes about personal story two. [] Notes about personal story three. > by thousands, in a chapter of U.S. history yet to be written in full. > [] > > Notes about personal story four. [] Notes about personal story five.
 * In 1940 all aliens in the United States were ordered by the government to register under the Alien Registration Act. All aliens were photographed, fingerprinted and issued an ID. Any change in status, including address changes, required immediate notification with the INS. During October of 1940, the government conducted a deportation hearing resulting in my father's release on his own recognizance. On November 15, the DOJ on a document titled "Transmission of Records of Warrant Hearings" reported my father’s passport status as: "Alien's German passport is at office of the Standard Oil Co. VALID UNTIL 5/21/41. The Department of Justice, on March 10, 1941 found dad subject to deportation on a warrant charge.
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 * December 7, 1941--I witnessed the attack on Pearl Harbor, the huge ominous dense black cloud of smoke. I heard the explosion of a nearby bomb and felt the jar of its concussion rattle through our old three story frame house. I saw two American fighter planes in a dogfight with Japanese Zeroes; I watched as one Zero was shot down. The next day, December 8, 1941, I would experience the horror of war and in the months ahead feel the devastating pain of abandonment.
 * Max Ebel came to the United States to be free, but when war came, he was sent to an internment camp. His was a fate shared
 * Now 60 years old, Mathias couldn't find work as a civil engineer. He accepted a low-paying job from which he was forced to retire at 62. After struggling several more years to provide for his wife and two teenagers, he died at age 65 of heart failure. Johanna became a citizen in 1961, and supported herself with the meager earnings from odd jobs until the age of 89 when Alzheimer’s robbed her of all past memories. She died in January 1997, at the age of 96. Three children survive today. Günther, who began his life on a train to New York, perished in an automobile accident at the age of 22, after his discharge from the U.S. Navy. The physical, emotional and psychological trauma the family suffered throughout the years of separations and a deprivation had long lasting effects on all of them and is still being felt by the remaining three children.
 * A government has the right and duty to protect itself. But in America, civil liberties should not be cast aside so freely, even in times of war. Frequently, as a result of rumor and innuendo, families were torn apart and homes lost. Those who were a real threat to the US could have been controlled by means which did not violate civil liberties so severely. No internee was ever convicted of a crime. Spies and saboteurs were not interned. They were executed after receiving due process, the same due process internees, who were here legally, never received. The tragedy of Japanese American relocation is well known primarily because of the tremendous effort of their people. Are our people less deserving of recognition? German Americans and our organizations must insist that our government finally acknowledge the wrongs committed against our people because of our ethnicity. No one will do it for us. Likewise, we remaining internees, much as we would like to keep these experiences locked away in a dark corner, owe it to others to publicize the whole story so that what we suffered never happens again.
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