Japanese Internment and Justice

1.) What does the word internment mean to you?

• it means to keep people locked down in a place, buring a time of war.

2.) Why were Japanese Americans interened in Manzanar.?

• because the U.S. thought that all Japanese people were the enemy.

3.) Why were Japanese Interenment Policies wrong?

• it was wrong because they discriminated inoccent Japanese people and took away their homes leaving them with no rights as american citizens.

The End of WW2

1.) Was Gen. MacArthur a successful general? Explain w/ evidence.

• Yes, ofcourse he was a successful general, because he won many battles including the battles in the islands of Bataan Leyte and Iwo Jima. He also made Japan surrender.

2.) Explain how successful the G.I. Bill was to returning soldiers?

• it was very successful and important because it granted soldiers to attend school and get a career after all the fighting they went through.

3.) Why were Mexicans in L.A. unfairly  treated in 1943?

• they were treated unfairly, because 11 white sailors in L.A. reported that they were attated by Mexicans wearing zoot suits. As a result to this, white men went to Mexican communities and began to attack and beat up anyone who looked like a Mexican zoot.

          

WWII in the Pacific

1.)  Who promised to "return" to liberate the philippines?

• General Douglas MacArthur

2.) What reasons did the POTUS use for using atomic bombs?

• To end the war and to save American lives from a Japanese invention.

3.) In 1942, why were the Allies under-strength to fight Japan?

• The Allies were under-strength against Japan because soldiers were ill-prepared to stop Japans advances.

4.) Were American submarines effective in the Pacific? Explain.

• Yes ofcourse, American submarines were effective in the Pacific because it was able to take out enemy war ships under water.

    

WW2 Across the Atlantic Ocean

1.) Who was the supreme commander in Europe, and was he successful?

• American General Dwight Eisenhower, and he was successful because he made the nazis have an unconditional surrender.

2.) What was the significance of D- day?

• it was the 1st invation of the allies in europe.They invated europe in order to get to Hitler.

3.) Was general Patton an effective leader?

• he defeated the Nazis in France.

4.) Why was the Battle of the Bulge significant?

• it was Hitlers last opportunitie for victory in WW2

      

Coping With The War at Home

1.) What was the OPA, and what was their job?

• its the office of price administration, and their job was to fight inflation by freezing prices on most goods.

2.) What was the purpose of the OSRD? (office of scientific research and development)

• to bring scientists into the war, and be able to come up with a new invention of better weapons to defeat the enemy in the war.

3.) In what ways did Americans sacrafice during WW2?

• people couldnt buy as much things as they used to buy, because they were being ration and that limitted them from purchasing goods.

4.) How similar or different were your sacrafices during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars?

• they were very different because the government in todays wars didnt give us the people, limitations like they did back then in WW2. So basiclly we didnt have to sacrafice anything really.

  

U.S. Gets ready for the fight

1.) .Who was A. Philip Randolph and why did he and Pressident Roosevelt meet?

• he was the founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car porters, and they met to discuss the equality of African Americans to work and fight for their country.

2.) Who were the WAAC'S and why were they important to war effect?

• they were the Womens Auxiliary Army Corps, and were very important to the war, because they worked as nurses, ambulance drivers, radio operators, electricions, and pilots.

3.) How well did African Americans do during WW2?

• it was really crapy for them because, they would get discriminated and always be segregated. they woud also only work as janitors cleaning toilets.

      

U.S Inches Towards WW2

1.) What was lend-lease, and what countries did it benefited?

• The president would lend or rent weapons and supplies to "any country whose defense was vital to the United States." This benefited both England and the Soviet Union.

2.) What did Roosevelt call German U-boats?

• he called them rattlesnakes

3.) How would you describe Roosevelts opinion of war?

• At first Roosevelts remained nutral because the people wanted to stay out of the war, but because he was supporting both the soviet union and England by giving them weapons and supplies, japan ended up bombing pearl harbor, therefore making the US officaly enter world war 2.