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WW2 Death Totals Visualized
Around 2 and a half minutes long. Puts death totals in perspective
U.S. Agriculture and it's importance in WW2
5 and a half minute propaganda film by Disney stressing the importance of U.S. farmers during the war.
African - American Migration during WW2, Riots, Civil Rights, and FDR
I usually show the portion of the video the 3 minute mark to the end. It's pretty good overall
Race Riots in Detroit during WWII
Clip is less than 2 minutes long. Explains what led to the riots, how they were handled, and the death toll. For a more detailed explanation, click here
Zoot Suit Riots in California during WWII
Extremely well done... but around 5 minutes.
Japanese - American Internment During WWII
Japanese-American internment was the relocation and temporary confinement by the United States government beginning in early 1942 of approximately 110,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese who lived along the Pacific coast of the U.S. to camps. This was done to ease the minds of most of the population of the U.S. after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. The fear was that Japan might launch a full scale invasion of our country, and that Japanese-Americans were more likely to aide the Japanese military than other Americans.
The internment of Japanese Americans was applied unequally throughout the United States. Japanese Americans who lived on the West Coast of the United States were all interned. In Hawaii, where more than 150,000 Japanese Americans composed over one-third of the territory's population (Hawaii wasn't a state yet), only about 1,500 Japanese Americans that were considered high risk suspects of aiding the Japanese were interned (mainly because the U.S. didn't want to expend the resources it would have taken to intern them all). No Japanese Americans living East of the Mississippi River were interned.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the internment on February 19, 1942. The piece of legislation allowed local military commanders to designate "exclusion zones," from which "any or all persons may be excluded." This power was used to declare that all people of Japanese ancestry were excluded from the entire Pacific coast, including all of California and most of Oregon and Washington, except for those put in camps. Some Japanese Americans understood why the camps were created and went along with the process while others strongly objected to the process. The camps were built quickly (mostly on Native - American reservations far away from highly populated areas) based on designs for military barracks, making the buildings poorly equipped for cramped family living. Armed guards were posted at the camps, which were surrounded by barbed wire. Internees were typically allowed to stay with their families, and were treated relatively well unless they violated the rules.
In 1944, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the exclusion orders in the court case Korematsu v. U.S. The United States Census Bureau assisted the internment efforts by providing confidential neighborhood information on Japanese Americans. The camps began releasing interned Japanese - Americans in early 1945 (before the WWII was over) when the U.S. military concluded that the Japanese military didn't pose a threat to U.S. anymore.
In 1988, Congress passed and President Ronald Reagan signed legislation which apologized for the internment on behalf of the U.S. government. The legislation said that government actions were based on "race prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership". The U.S. government eventually paid more than $1.6 billion in reparations to Japanese Americans who had been interned and their heirs.
The internment of Japanese Americans was applied unequally throughout the United States. Japanese Americans who lived on the West Coast of the United States were all interned. In Hawaii, where more than 150,000 Japanese Americans composed over one-third of the territory's population (Hawaii wasn't a state yet), only about 1,500 Japanese Americans that were considered high risk suspects of aiding the Japanese were interned (mainly because the U.S. didn't want to expend the resources it would have taken to intern them all). No Japanese Americans living East of the Mississippi River were interned.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the internment on February 19, 1942. The piece of legislation allowed local military commanders to designate "exclusion zones," from which "any or all persons may be excluded." This power was used to declare that all people of Japanese ancestry were excluded from the entire Pacific coast, including all of California and most of Oregon and Washington, except for those put in camps. Some Japanese Americans understood why the camps were created and went along with the process while others strongly objected to the process. The camps were built quickly (mostly on Native - American reservations far away from highly populated areas) based on designs for military barracks, making the buildings poorly equipped for cramped family living. Armed guards were posted at the camps, which were surrounded by barbed wire. Internees were typically allowed to stay with their families, and were treated relatively well unless they violated the rules.
In 1944, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the exclusion orders in the court case Korematsu v. U.S. The United States Census Bureau assisted the internment efforts by providing confidential neighborhood information on Japanese Americans. The camps began releasing interned Japanese - Americans in early 1945 (before the WWII was over) when the U.S. military concluded that the Japanese military didn't pose a threat to U.S. anymore.
In 1988, Congress passed and President Ronald Reagan signed legislation which apologized for the internment on behalf of the U.S. government. The legislation said that government actions were based on "race prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership". The U.S. government eventually paid more than $1.6 billion in reparations to Japanese Americans who had been interned and their heirs.
Summary of Internment
3 and a half minutes summary. We will probably view this in class
Longer Video describing Japanese Internment
This is really, really good... especially the beginning of it. We will probably will not have the time in class to view this. It is roughly 15 minutes long, but you'll get a way better idea of how the Japanese were interned than you will by reading anything. It concludes with the U.S. Government acknowledging its wrongdoing in 1988.