Timeline (Shastine)
Trigger Words (Matt)
Containment: George Kennan's policy of preventing the spread of communism to The Soviets' neighboring nations.
Dumbarton Oaks: A series of meetings in 1944 that sought to discuss possibilities of creating an international organization (UN) that would aintain peace after WWII.
George F. Kennan: Realist and Soviet specialists that developed the idea of containment at the beginning of the Cold War.
Marshall Plan: Truman's plan to rebuild western (democratic) Europe after the war by giving them financial and provisional aid.
McCarthyism: McCarthy's accusations against many government employees, celebrities and random people of being Communists. His most notable accusation was against General George Marshall and was the cause of his downfall.
Taft-Harley Act: This act outlawed all unions made unions liable for damages that resulted from jurisdictional disputes among themselves, and required union leaders to take a non-communist oath.
Dumbarton Oaks: A series of meetings in 1944 that sought to discuss possibilities of creating an international organization (UN) that would aintain peace after WWII.
George F. Kennan: Realist and Soviet specialists that developed the idea of containment at the beginning of the Cold War.
Marshall Plan: Truman's plan to rebuild western (democratic) Europe after the war by giving them financial and provisional aid.
McCarthyism: McCarthy's accusations against many government employees, celebrities and random people of being Communists. His most notable accusation was against General George Marshall and was the cause of his downfall.
Taft-Harley Act: This act outlawed all unions made unions liable for damages that resulted from jurisdictional disputes among themselves, and required union leaders to take a non-communist oath.
Sarah's Primary Source
I know this isn't a political cartoon but I hope it still counts as a primary document, because there is so much that we can pull away from this World War two anti-Japanese propaganda poster. For one, look at the way that the artist portrayed the Japanese soldier, he doesn't even look human. He has a huge ugly mouth, and long claw-like nails. The artist also drew him with a huge knife, about to stab some poor innocent white woman. Something interesting about the woman in this image is how generic she is, possibly so that soldiers may be able to see her as their girlfriend or wife and may be even more motivated to fight.
Propaganda posters like these were very effective at both scaring and rallying Americans behind the war effort. After all it makes it much easier to kill someone and put them in internment camps after they have been dehumanized to look like monsters and are about to kill your girlfriend.
Propaganda posters like these were very effective at both scaring and rallying Americans behind the war effort. After all it makes it much easier to kill someone and put them in internment camps after they have been dehumanized to look like monsters and are about to kill your girlfriend.
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Matt's Primary Source: Roosevelt's Address after Pearl Harbor.
This address to the White House announces American involvement in the war. After Pearl Harbor, Americans across the nation were shocked, devastated and very angry. Roosevelt summarized the American attitude at this point as he stated that "I believe I interpret the will of Congress and the people when I assert that we will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost but we will make certainty that this form of treachery will never endanger us again." This address is one of the confirmations of war against Japan. Pearl Harbor was not only the beginning of America's involvement in WWII, but also the mark of America's growth as a military power.
This address as well as other declarations of war are significant to American history because they demonstrate the American way of never backing down. This address also foreshadows the discrimination against the Japanese which leads to their internment on the west coast. Although America gains a good reputation for being strong, the internment gets them mockery from other nations who exploit Americas contradictory ways of internment camps. These camps contradict America's resentment of the German internment camps during the holocaust.
This address as well as other declarations of war are significant to American history because they demonstrate the American way of never backing down. This address also foreshadows the discrimination against the Japanese which leads to their internment on the west coast. Although America gains a good reputation for being strong, the internment gets them mockery from other nations who exploit Americas contradictory ways of internment camps. These camps contradict America's resentment of the German internment camps during the holocaust.
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/wwii/dec03.asp#address
The Relocation of Japanese Americans
In response to the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the War Relocation Authority to relocate the Japanese Americans. It resettled thousands of Japanese Americans in isolated interment camps across the western states of the USA. These relocation camps had Japanese Americans locked behind barbed wire and had them live in poor condition barracks. The families lived one family to a room that was equipped with nothing and they were forced to endure bad food, insufficient medical care, and poorly equipped schools. This picture is an example of how the Japanese Americans were mistreated and discriminated during World War II. Japanese Americans were forced to leave their homes and belongings two months after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
-Valerie Pineda
-Valerie Pineda
Shastine's Primary Source
During the era prior to WWII, Japanese Americans had trouble assimilating to the American culture. Due to the Gentlemen's Agreement there were less a flow of Japanese immigrants into America. This made it harder for Japanese males to find a Japanese wife (as shown in the reading). The reading also exemplified about the struggles during the Great Depression.
The reading shows us how the Japanese (in general) did try to assimilate themselves in to the American society (with learning English) yet when Pearl Harbor was bombed it was bound constitutional for the Japanese to be kept in internment camps as ruled in Korematsu vs. U.S. This was found constitutional because at that moment in time the Japanese posed a possible threat to Americans. Although in internment camps, the Japanese still showed how they were patriotic and loyal to the country. |