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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?
 * The United States was attacked by Japan. Pearl Habor was bombed.
 * President Roosevelt issued proclamations 2525, 2526, and 2527, making Germans, Italians, and Japanese nationals alien enemies.
 * A person living in the U.S. that is from a country the U.S. is at war with.
 * Yes, because all of them were from countries the U.S. was at war with.
 * Proclamation 2525 allowed them to be sent to internment camps.
 * They were allowed to arrest alien enemies and the FBI raided homes.
 * All alien enemies were to be kept in the country and be removed from the public.

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

How were internment camps organized?
 * The concentration camps were places of mistreatment, starvation, forced labor, and killings. An internment camp


 * They were big holding areas.

Where were the internment camps?
 * There were a lot in the North Eastern region and there was a lot in California and Texas.

What types of facilities did the U.S. use to contain enemy aliens?


 * US Department of Justice permanent internment facilities, US Army internment camps (including prisons), Latin American internment camps, US State Department detention facilities and forest work camps.

Japanese Americans Research Questions
How did the attack on Pearl Harbor affect the lives of Japanese Americans?

How were they treated before and after the bombing?
 * Japanese Americans were treated differently. Americans sent them to internment camps along with German Americans. All people with Japanese ancestors were excluded from the entire Pacific coast.

Why were they treated this way?
 * Before the bombing a lot of people didn't like Japanese people. After the bombing

Were Japanese Americans sympathetic to or against what Japan was doing?

In what ways was this similar and different to how Jews were treated in Germany?

Who were the Nisei, Issei, and Kebei?



Notes about personal story one.
 * Kids made up their own games. They lived on farm land.

Notes about personal story two.
 * In internment camps people wake up, share a bathroom, then go eat with a ticket. If you didn't have a ticket you couldn't eat. Everyone was innocent but we all had to go.

Notes about personal story three.
 * As little kids, Japanese Americans didn't know what was going on. They kept hearing "Pearl Harbor was bombed, Pearl Harbor was bombed". Most of them didn't even know where Pearl Harbor was. While they were sleeping, American soldiers came in and took some family members. They didn't even know where they were going or if they'll be okay. They had one week to pack, only the things they could carry, and didn't know how to pack for it. After they got off the train they got on a truck and went into a fenced in area. Everyone knew they were going to lose their freedom.

Notes about personal story four.
 * Familes lived in badly built overcrowed barracks. There was no running water and little heat. Everyone had to use public bathrooms. The camps provided medical care and schools.

Notes about personal story five.