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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?
 * On December 7, 1941 the Empie of Japan attacked the US.
 * After the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt issued Proclamations 2525 and 2526, which called German, Italian and Japenese nationals enemy aliens.
 * A citizen of the US that is from a counrty that the US is in war with.
 * Yes, becuase they were citizens of the US, who came from the country that the US is at war with.
 * The US was able to inter people because of Proclamation 2526, they were able to send them to internment camps.
 * Alien enemies where prone to restraint or to depart from the US.
 * All Japanese and German Americans were to be contained and removed from the public because they where related to the war.

Concentration Camps vs Internment Camps Research Questions
People were sent to concentration camps because of their religious and political beliefs. People were sent to internment camps because the US saw them as a risk to national security. It was over crowded and had bad living conditions. They lived in tarpaper-covered houses without plumbing There were alot in California and Texas. There were also internment camps in Illinois, Wisconsin, New York and many other states.
 * What is the difference between a concentration camp and an internment camp?**
 * How were internment camps organized?**
 * Where were the internment camps?**

Army facilities, detention facilities, permanent internment facilities, temporary detention facilities, Latin American Detention Facilities, Forest camps, Department of Justice Internment Facilities
 * What types of facilities did the US use to contain enemy aliens?**

Japanese Americans Research Questions
How did the attack on Pearl Harbor affect the lives of Japanese Americans?
 * The were forced to relocate to " War Relocation Camps". If you lived on the west coast of the US you were interned. In Hawaii where over 150,000 Japanese Americans composed nearly a third of that territory's population, an additional 1,200 to 1,800 Japanese Americans were interned

How were they treated after the bombing?
 * Before the bombing most people were anti-Japenese. The Oriental Excu
 * They were discriminated. People threw rocks at them, beat them whenever they were alone, and many othere terrible things. People who looked Japenese was treated cruely.

Why were they treated this way?


 * Because the attack on Pearl Harbor led to suspicion that the Japenese were planning to attack on the West Coast.

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? Diiferent:
 * Similar: They were bith sent to terrible camps were they were tortured and murdered.

Notes about personal story one.
 * Kenji Ocuda was the frist born, 1922. He was born on Pike Street near the theater district, in the Paramount theater area. When to University YMCA. One day after dinner an FBI agent came to his house and asked permission to look through some documents. Asked to take them to be translated. Was in Colorado camp and they didnt let him leave until January 1943. Missed most classes becasue they didnt let him leave.

Notes about personal story two.
 * Fumi Hayashi, born in Alameda on June 3, 1926. She lived in Berkley since she was two. She remembers going out and playing in the streets, games like Kick-the-Can and Prisoner Space. When she was growing up kids would walk a miles by thereselves and nothing bad ever happened, children not even in kindergarden would walk the miles, parents wouldnt worry at all. Now a days people are always wondering if their children are safe, if anything happened to them. When Fumi was young kids from the neighborhood would go in other poeples yard and play without having to ask. She remembers that once a boy was playing Tarzan on the oak tree in their front yard and he fell and broke his arm in two places, the boys father didnt say anything to her dad, he took his child to the doctor, it was his kid that hurt himself. Today if someone got hurt on your property you would be held responsible and possibly sued.

Notes about personal story three.
 * Rose Nieda was born in Walville, Washington. Born April 26, 1923. Is a Niesei, second generation. Was adopted. Lived in Washington until internment. She was evacuated from a place called Bryn Mawr, Washington. Played games like ping pong, rummy and KAruta(a Japenesse game) << when she was young.

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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 of or lack of support for Hitler affect their lives in the US?

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