Agenda Turn in your homework with your name

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

JAPANESE INTERNMENT CAMPS Examining internment through primary and secondary sources

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

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

Japanese Internment �December 7, 1941 �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

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

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

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.

“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

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”

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.

Listen to “Kenji” by Fort Minor

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?

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

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.