do now: Based on the homework, what are the parallels between the Holocaust in Germany and the internment of Japanese American citizens? List and describe at least two.

1103: life on the homefront 4/13

questions: What was the US government’s reaction to Pearl Harbor? What treatment did many Japanese Americans receive after the bombing of Pearl Harbor?

Pearl Harbor + Axis Powers

Who was involved in WWII? Allies vs. Axis Powers    Axis Powers – Germany, Italy, (Japan) Allied Powers – Great Britain, France, (Soviet Union), (China), (U.S.) 

America Declares War

Life in the Homefront

ZOOT SUIT RIOTS

“Waiting for the Signal From Home . . .”

Executive Order 9066 + War Relocation Authority

Internment Camps

Korematsu v. United States (1944) Answer questions 1-2 on p. 733

Korematsu v. United States (1944) Ruled that the internment of Japanese American citizens was constitutional 1988 – US government formally apologizes and pays $1.6 billion in reparations

Afghanistan is our nation’s longest war US involvement in WWII lasted about 3 years. Why do you think that’s the case?

Practice DBQ Go through the following documents and answer the questions. For each document, identify an example of social, political or economic change and explain it.

Pick a thesis and argue it While life within the United States changed for many groups during World War II, this change is most significantly demonstrated by the changes in work place roles for women and African Americans.  OR The greatest change to occur domestically during World War II was the end of the Great Depression and the rebirth of a bustling American economy.

http://www.history.com/shows/wwii-in-hd/videos/concentration-camp-liberation#concentration-camp-liberation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroo_Onoda

Mein Kampf (My Struggle), 1925

The result! A loss of racial pride.

Cover of an anti-black and antisemitic Nazi propaganda brochure

“The Jew is a bastard.”

"Mentally ill Negro 16 years in an institution costing 35,000 marks."

"Wherever rats turn up, they spread annihilation throughout the land, destroying property and food supplies. This is how they disseminate disease. Pestilence, leprosy, typhus, cholera, dysentery. Just like the Jews among mankind, rats represent the very essence of malicious and subterranean destruction."

“He who wears this symbol is an enemy of our people.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REhsVkNyUsE Gas chamber boy in the stripped pajamas