“The internment of Japanese and Japanese Americans in WWII is one of the darkest and most controversial chapters of th
American history. After the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7 , 1941, Japanese Americans were detained without trial and without committing a crime, solely based on the assumption that it was necessary for national security. In February 1942, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 allowing for the creation of military zones that could exclude certain civilians. In practice, this led to the forced relocation and internment of more than 110,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans who were placed in internment camps for the duration of the war. Wartime hysteria and racial prejudice pushed the country’s leadership to violate rights guaranteed under the U.S. Constitution. Even when these injustices were brought to the country’s highest court in the 1944 case Korematsu v. United States, the Supreme Court justices ruled that “military necessity” outweighed the civil rights of Japanese Americans.”
They were concentration camps. The Japanese were forced to give up their land and property. It violated the constitution.
Consumer Culture
A society in which mass production and consumption of nationally advertised products comes to dictate much of social life and status.
Jazz Age
Term coined by writer F. Scott Fitzgerald to characterize the spirit of rebellion and spontaneity among young Americans in the 1920's, a spirit epitomized by the hugely popular jazz music of the era.
Flappers
Young women of the 1920's whose rebelling against prewar standards of feminist included wearing shorter dresses, bobbing their hair, dancing to jazz music, driving my cars, smoking cigarettes, and indulging in illogical drinking and gambling.
Harlem Renaissance
The nation's first self-conscious black literary and artistic movement, centered in New York City's Harlem district, which had a largely black population in the wake of the Great Migration from the South.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Organization founded in 1910 by black activists and white progressives that promoted education as a means of combating social problems and focused on Leah all action to secure the civil rights supposedly guaranteed by the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments.
Modernism
An early-twentieth-century cultural movement that rejected traditional notions of reality and adopted radical new forms of artistic expression.
Nativism
Reactionary conservative movement characterized by heightened nationalism, anti-immigration sentiment, and laws setting stricter regulations on immigration.
Sacco and Vanzetti Case (1921)
Trail of two Italian immigrants that occurred at the height of Italian immigration and against the backdrop of numerous terror attacks by anarchists despite the lack of clear evidence, the two defendants, both self professed anarchists, were convicted of mister and executed.
Immigration Act of 1924
Federal legislation intended to favor northern and Western European immigrants over those from southern and Eastern Europe by restricting the number of immigrants from any one European country to 2 percent of the total number of immigrants per year, with an overall limit of slightly over 150,000 new arrivals per year.
Scopes Trial (1925)
Highly publicized trail of a high school teacher in Tennessee for violating a state law the prohibited the teaching of evolution, the trail was seen as the climax of the fundamentalist war on Darwinism.
Germany lost World War I. In the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, the victorious powers (the United States, Great Britain, France, and other allied states) imposed punitive territorial, military, and economic provisions on defeated Germany. In the west, Germany returned Alsace-Lorraine to France.
Because America was there 2nd goal the entire eastern side of the world was what they wanted to conquer first so if they dropped the bomb and japan sent there entire force at America say bye bye murica
