Japanese American internment

The invasion of Shanghai lead to the Nanjing Massacre, which was also known as Nanking Massacre, and began in the end of 1937. This massacre involved the Chinese and the Japanese. Japanese forces killed around 300,000 Chinese people. The Japanese cruelty was incomparable, There were numerous ways that the Japanese took advantage of the Nanjing citizens. One example is how a large number of girls and women were raped, which lead to another name for the Nanjing Massacre, “Rape of Nanjing”.…

A century ago, in front of the Korea’s coastal waters, Japan and Russia had conflict over interests in Manchuria and the Korean peninsula, which is called Russo-Japanese War. At that era, Russian government was an imperial power and had many rebelling against the leader Czar Alexander II. After the incident, Czar Nicholas II obtained the sovereignty of Russia. However, because of too much internal revolution in Russia, they had to struggle with unstabilized government during the war. However,…

wartime reimbursements, and neither European, American nor Chinese government authorities have sought after the matter to any extraordinary degree.The deniers of the Nanking Massacre regularly start by exhibiting Japan as having "no expectation of beginning the war against China, the Sino-Japanese War.” They even say that the Japanese government offered a peace proposition in August of 1937. Their story is that the war was extended to Shanghai, as "the Japanese Army kept on torment from the…

and causes of the Second World War are quite numerous and are all different based on the many opinions of historians and their own understanding of the war in general. There are many leading factors to the war such as the rise of Italian Fascism, Japanese invasion and aggression towards China in the 1930s, and, primarily, the political takeover of Germany by Hitler with the establishment of the Nazi Party. Though beyond these, imperialism still remains an underlying factor that caused…

when he beats Don Lash the fastest American runner in the 5000 meter race. As time goes on, a war is starting in Europe and in the Pacific and instead of waiting to be drafted Louie signs up for the Air Force, one day on a search and rescue mission his plane “The Green Hornet” starts to fail and they crash, during this time Louie doesn’t give up hope and finds ways to survive one day he makes a promise to…

concentration camps it was also the reason for Japanese internment camps. By having these internment camps, America was on its way to becoming the next Germany. The war ended the holocaust and the depression but the countless lives that it took, especially in Japan, was devastating. The good doesn’t outweigh the bad. Women were encouraged to get jobs for the first time but they were also pressured into marrying soldiers, African American men were discriminated while they were soldiers…

time. No matter how proud they were to be Americans and serve their country they still weren’t seen as equals to anyone else in the military. On the positive side African Americans were still able to hold a new sense of pride within their race for all the good things they’ve accomplished. This is obvious in document nine where an all black newspaper stated that “we are determined to protect our country...WE ARE AMERICANS TOO!” In the end for African Americans as always there’s a major upside and…

The Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945, is widely considered to begin with the Marco Polo Bridge incident of July 1937 and end with the Japanese surrender in September 1945. I would argue that to understand the motives as to why Japan invaded China, it is essential to grasp their previous history of conflicts and tensions, beginning with the Japanese claim of Taiwan from China’s Qing Dynasty after the First Sino-Japanese war in 1895, right through to the invasion of Manchuria in 1931. This…

Keiko, a second-generation Japanese-American girl and Henry’s only friend, sneak into the Black Elks Club, a jazz club, where the makeup of the crowd is nearly all African-Americans. Despite their initial feeling of being out of place, Keiko and Henry discover that, “standing out in the crowd were several Japanese couples, drinking and soaking in the music” (55). This reinforces the idea of the gathering of jazz lovers, not solely of African-Americans and Japanese-Americans. The Black Elks Club…

ultimate groundwork of the JACL. They were frustrated with the social and economic discrimination placed upon them and especially the legal status of their parents as second-class. They believed they were able to change the injustice through the American democratic system. The Asian race, culture, and history contrasted greatly with the Caucasian majority of the United States. They were regarded as unassimilable and they were denied citizenship through naturalization. Only by birth did the Nisei…