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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 Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. After the attack, the U.S. entered WWII.
 * The U.S. entered WWII and forced Japnese and German Americans to live in camps.
 * An alien enemy is a person held in custody or prison.
 * All the detainees were considered alien enemies.
 * The Proclamations states that if the U.S. is in war with any other foreign nation and the President makes a public proclamation of the event, all citizens of that nation not naturalized in the U.S. can be restrained or removed as alien enemies.
 * If you were from the nation that the U.S. was at war with, you were sent to internment camps and could be removed or arrested easily if you did something wrong.
 * The U.S. couldn't trust anyone that was from Germany and Japan, and since Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and Germany wanted the U.S. involved in the war, the U.S. took precautions for their safety by sending them to internment camps.

Concentration Camps vs Internment Camps Research Questions
What is the difference between a concentration camp and an internment camp? How were internment camps organized?
 * An internment camp is a large detention center to hold enemy aliens or political opponents especially during a war. A concentration camp was used for forced labor and killing many people like the Nazi camps in WWII.
 * The internment camps were run like a normal community. There were movies, scools, health services, and employment services.

Where were the internment camps? What was life like in the internment camps? Were there different internment camps for Japanese and Germans? How were the Japanese and German camps similar and different? What types of facilities did the US use to contain enemy aliens?
 * Most of the internment camps were in the western United States because most of the Japanese-American population was located in the western states. There was also some in Hawaii.
 * When you lived in these camps, there was no plumbing and cooking facilities. The buildings were cramped with all the families stuffed in the barracks. Some of the internment camps were in Wyoming and many people were unprepared for the harsh weather by not having appropriate clothing for the cold temperatures.
 * Japanese and Germans had seperate internment camps.
 * The camps were similar because the types of camps the U.S. all had the same purpose.
 * The U.S. used internment camps instead of concentration camps to hold enemy aliens.

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?
 * It had changed their lives because they were thought of as traitors and sent to internment camps because they couldn't be trusted.

Why were they treated this way?
 * The Japanese Americans were thought of as traitors and the enemy's friend.

Were most 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?
 * Americans thought the Japanese Americans were on Japan's side and they didn't like the U.S.
 * Many Japanese Americans felt that what Japan did by bombing Pearl Harbor was a disgrace to their culture and that what they did was wrong.
 * They were different because the Jews were killed in the concentration camps. They were similar by they were all forced to live in these camps. They didn't have a choice.

Who were the Nisei, Issei and Kibei? Notes about personal story one. Notes about personal story two.
 * The Issei were immigrants from Japanese born in Japan. The Nisei were Japanese that were American-born and American-educated children of the Issei. The Kibei were Japanese that were born on American soil but educated wholly or partially in Japan.
 * Bess K. Chin is a Japanese American that went to an internment camp in Heart Mountain, Wyoming. She was able to leave early and move to St. Louis. Many of the places in her community were segregated. Her family was Christian. Her father died of a stroke. Her family was culturally Japanese and spoke it when they were in their house.
 * Hiroshi Kashiwagi was a Nissei in Sacremento tha experienced racism before the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. They had segrgated classes not only on culture but also on your family's wealth. After the attack occured, he was sent to an internment camp. in Tule Lake for 6 years.

Notes about personal story three. Notes about personal story four. He was in the camps for two years. His boy scout group was segregated. The discrimmination effect didn't really start until after the bombing. Notes about personal story five.
 * Janet Daijogo went to an ineternment camp when she was five until she was eight. It was located in Topaz, Utah. Leaders in the Japanese American community were put more inland for protection of the U.S. to see if maybe they could'nt be trusted with the Japanese government by the U.S. The military had searched her house after the bombing. All the Japanese Americans had to report to certain areas soon after. The barracks they lived in in the camps were hastily put together. Later in her life, she was culturely confused about what had happened at Topaz.
 * Marsaru Kawaguchi also went to the internment camps in Topaz, Utah. After the attack, there were traveling restrictions for Japanese Americans. He went to the camp at the age of sixteen.
 * Fumi Hayashi went to Topaz, Utah in internment camp. She later moved to St.Louis after she left the camp. She played the piano for church services in the camp. She grew up in Berkely before going to the camp. Living in Berkely at the time was different than now. She said that you could get away with things and people wouldn't be as mad if you did something wrong back then.

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?

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.

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