1. Agenda Turn in your homework with your name on it
When you turn it in, pick up the two papers on the front desk
Extra credit: Holocaust webquest due MONDAY
Monday: wrap up the war
Tuesday-Wednesday: in-class essay time
Thursday: TEST and ESSAY DUE

2. JAPANESE INTERNMENT CAMPS
Examining internment through primary and secondary sources

3. Japanese internment West Coast (California, Oregon, Washington)
Japanese-Americans & Japanese immigrants forced to relocate
Why?

4. Americans viewed the Japanese as racially inferior and used racial stereotypes to describe the enemy as well as Japanese-Americans

5. Japanese Internment December 7, 1941 February 19, 1942
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
February 19, 1942
President Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066
allowed military authorities to exclude "any and all persons" from designated areas of the country as necessary for national defense

6. Due to Pearl Harbor, people feared that Japanese-Americans were spying or helping prepare for a Japanese invasion of the USA
In 1942, President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 which “relocated” 112,000 Japanese-Americans to internment camps away from the Pacific coast

7. What do you see in this photograph?
car; shop, probably owned by a Japanese person named Wanto; sign says “I am an American”
Why might the owner of this store have a large sign that says, “I am an American”?
maybe the owner is a Japanese-American and wants the people to know that he/she is an American, just like they are
it’s possible the owner is Japanese-American and has never been to Japan and feels that they are more of an American than they are of Japanese ancestry, so they want other people to know they are not going to help Japan in any way
Do you think this sign makes any difference to the people who see it?
some people might feel reassured that the owner is an American, but many people, especially white people, could probably care less
people might think, “Well, of course! They’re the enemy, they’re liars, so of course they would say they are American when they’re not really!”

8. WCCA (Wartime Civil Control Administration) Assembly Center: housed evacuees temporarily until the relocation centers were finished being constructed
WRA (War Relocation Authority) Relocation Center: internment camps
WRA Isolation Center: where particularly “dangerous” or “criminal” people were sent if they couldn’t live peacefully at the relocation centers

9. Japanese internment camp
The Japanese in internment camps faced bad living conditions and a lack of civil rights
Japanese internment camp

10. Compare and contrast the two definitions below
internment camp –noun a prison camp for the confinement of enemy aliens, prisoners of war, political prisoners, etc.
Definitions from Dictionary.com
concentration camp –noun a guarded compound for the detention or imprisonment of aliens, members of ethnic minorities, political opponents, etc.
Distinction between death camps and labor camps

11. “At Minidoka, arriving evacuees found two stacked canvas cots, a pot-bellied stove and a light bulb hanging from the ceiling…Rooms had no running water, which had to be carried from community facilities.”
Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians, Personal Justice Denied
What do you see in this photograph?
I see a man bathing, using a small bowl of water to wash his face. If he has to do this for his face, I’m assuming he would have to bathe in a similar way for the rest of his body.
Why do you think this man has to bath this way?
I guess there is just no running water.
Would you like to live like this for 3-4 years?
No, I wouldn’t like living like this for any long period of time. Maybe on a short camping trip, but not any longer than that.

12. Exploring Japanese internment
Through primary and secondary sources!
First: Yuri Kochiyama’s recount of her experience in a Japanese internment camp
Then: Fort Minor’s song “Kenji”

13. Japanese internment camps
Yuri Kochiyama
How does she describe her life outside of high school in the US?
What were her living conditions like?
What does she describe her inner conflict as when she first got to the camps (paragraph 6)?
She uses the phrase “I was red, white, and blue” twice in her story. The connotations of the use of that phrase are incredibly different between the first and the second time she uses them. Contrast the two, and explain why.

14. Listen to “Kenji” by Fort Minor

15. Japanese internment camps
Fort Minor – “Kenji”
What is the tone like throughout the song? How does that contribute to the song’s message?
What stanza stood out the most to you in this song?

16. Japanese internment camps
Compare and contrast the two sources about Japanese internment.
What are the similarities?
What are the differences?

17. For or against internment?
Read through the documents that support and negate Japanese internment. Using that information and what was discussed in class over the last few weeks, answer the following question:
Should the US have interned Japanese-Americans during World War II? Why or why not? Explain.