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General Resources

Japanese American Internment – Issues in American History

Japanese American Internment

Children of the Camps by PBS

Executive Order 9066

What led to the internment of Japanese civilians in
the western U.S., how was the plan carried out and why?

The Decision To Evacuate the Japanese From the Pacific Coast

Lt. Gen. J. L. DeWitt’s Final Report; Japanese Evacuation from the West Coast 1942.

Executive Order 9066: The Internment of
110,000 Japanese Americans

The Secret Munson Report

Japanese Internment Camps

Japanese living in America were rounded up and sent to
internment camps, where they lived in barracks. These were not spies, collaborationists or sympathizers; they were Americans. What were the
conditions in the camps?  What did the people do while they were imprisoned?

Confinement and Ethnicity: Overview of WWII
Japanese Relocation Camps

Manzanar National Historic Site

Children of the Camps

Identification Card Project

Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project

Japanese American Exhibit and Access Project

Dorothea Lange – Camp photos

War Relocation Camps in Arizona 1942 – 1946

Fort Missoula Federal Detention Center

Evacuation and Internment of San Francisco Japanese

Shintoism

Dominant religious philosophy in Japan before and during World War II. It believed the emperor divine, and was instrumental in the Japanese battle tactics and philosophy of war.

Shinto - Gale

BBC: Religion – Shinto

Emperor Hirohito

Japanese people believed Hirohito was a god. What
role did he play in the decision to attack the United States? What was his function during World War II?  What happened to him at the
end of the war?

Emperor Hirohito

American Experience: Emperor Hirohito

Gale in Context: Hirohito

Kamikaze

The divine wind” strategy to turn the tide of battle in the
Pacific war. Where did this idea originate? Why were these young men willing to crash their planes into United States naval vessels and die?

Japanese suicide attacks at sea

Suicide Tactics: The Kamikaze During WWII

Kamikaze: Notes from a suicide manual

Thunder Gods and Kamikazes: the suicide air offensives of World War II

Japanese Immigration to America

Japanese people began immigrating long before World War II. Why did these people move to America? How did they survive once they arrived? How did they contribute to their new
homeland?

The Japanese Immigration

Historical Overview: Japanese Americans

Japanese attacks on American West Coast

Submarine attacks and aerial attacks were feared by the civilian and military populations of the West Coast. How real were
those fears? What types of attacks did the Japanese
actually launch?  Were they successful?

The Japanese bomb the Continental U.S. West Coast

Japanese submarines prowl the U.S. Pacific coastline in 1941

Japanese bombing of the West Coast

Defense of the western hemisphere

Japanese balloon bombs

Attacks on U.S. soil

Women in WW II

With most of the men fighting overseas, women’s role in
society changed. They weren’t simply housewives, but factory
workers, pilots, nurses, and served their country in many ways unheard of in pre-WW II America.

Gale: Women During WWII

A People at War: Women Who Served

WASP: Women Airforce Service Pilots

War, Women and Opportunity

Women in World War II

Women come to the Front

Rationing

With raw materials and processed goods fueling the war effort, many items at home were rationed, such as rubber, gum, tobacco, and food items. How did people stretch their rationed items and still feed and clothe their families?

War Time Rations

Pictures of Ration Books

War Time Recipe

Living with War: Food rationing

German and Italian Internment

Not only were the Japanese rounded up and sent to internment camps, but German-Americans and Italian Americans also were
imprisoned. Why? These were American citizens.

The internment of German American civilians

Japanese, German, and Italian-American Alien Internment

Injustice ignored: The Internment of Italian
- Americans during World War II

History of the Internment of German-American Civilians during World War II

Japanese American Soldiers in World War II

Japanese Americans at War

Japanese American Soldiers in WWII

American heroes

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