The War of the Japanese
The day was December 7, 1941. Unlit Christmas lights are strung on green palm trees and the day is just beginning for the navy base in Pearl Harbor. But then time took over. At 7:55 AM, Japanese fighter planes carrying deadly bombs flew in, ready to destroy the American naval base.
In as little as two hours, there were four battleships destroyed and four more damaged. Dozens of more heroic war stories were born. And America had entered the second war of the world.
THE BEGINNINGS OF WAR:
World War II did not begin with America and Japan. As with the first war, the second began with Germany. In 1939, the German dictator, Adolf Hitler invaded Poland. This caused France and England to declare war on Germany. September …show more content…
Separate and resist danger. Especially in schools, even children built a metaphorical wall between the Japanese and themselves. By the end of January 1942, the headlines shifted to Japanese Americans. Big voices spread the rumor that “Aliens in the northwest may be moved”. ‘Aliens’ was the term used to describe the Issei, or Japanese Americans that had been born in Japan. It began with the men. Ultimately, over 1,000 Japanese men were sent to Fort Missoula in Montana for loyalty for loyalty hearings. Ironically, none of these high-risk individuals were ever convicted. But it was the beginning. of the internment. On February 19, 1942, President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which gave the right to armed forces commanders to declare anywhere in the United States as ‘military area’ and exclude anyone from that area, specifically anybody of Japanese Ancestry. Things quieted down for awhile, but in March 1942, it …show more content…
The internees made the most of their time organizing jobs and making a small society amongst themselves. There was a school and where the children went, and although not up to the technology of the day, they functioned. A pastor named Emery Andrews who had moved his whole family along with his congregation, which were all Nikkei, to Idaho. He ran errands for the incarcerees and even took some out for the day once they got specially issued passes. But the main thing that the Japanese Americans enjoyed at Minidoka was baseball. There were several makeshift fields in the camp and any Nikkei, young, old, male, or female, all came to play. The continuing quote from many former incarcerees was “Baseball saved
The day was December 7, 1941. Unlit Christmas lights are strung on green palm trees and the day is just beginning for the navy base in Pearl Harbor. But then time took over. At 7:55 AM, Japanese fighter planes carrying deadly bombs flew in, ready to destroy the American naval base.
In as little as two hours, there were four battleships destroyed and four more damaged. Dozens of more heroic war stories were born. And America had entered the second war of the world.
THE BEGINNINGS OF WAR:
World War II did not begin with America and Japan. As with the first war, the second began with Germany. In 1939, the German dictator, Adolf Hitler invaded Poland. This caused France and England to declare war on Germany. September …show more content…
Separate and resist danger. Especially in schools, even children built a metaphorical wall between the Japanese and themselves. By the end of January 1942, the headlines shifted to Japanese Americans. Big voices spread the rumor that “Aliens in the northwest may be moved”. ‘Aliens’ was the term used to describe the Issei, or Japanese Americans that had been born in Japan. It began with the men. Ultimately, over 1,000 Japanese men were sent to Fort Missoula in Montana for loyalty for loyalty hearings. Ironically, none of these high-risk individuals were ever convicted. But it was the beginning. of the internment. On February 19, 1942, President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which gave the right to armed forces commanders to declare anywhere in the United States as ‘military area’ and exclude anyone from that area, specifically anybody of Japanese Ancestry. Things quieted down for awhile, but in March 1942, it …show more content…
The internees made the most of their time organizing jobs and making a small society amongst themselves. There was a school and where the children went, and although not up to the technology of the day, they functioned. A pastor named Emery Andrews who had moved his whole family along with his congregation, which were all Nikkei, to Idaho. He ran errands for the incarcerees and even took some out for the day once they got specially issued passes. But the main thing that the Japanese Americans enjoyed at Minidoka was baseball. There were several makeshift fields in the camp and any Nikkei, young, old, male, or female, all came to play. The continuing quote from many former incarcerees was “Baseball saved