Attack On Pearl Harbor Research Paper

December 7, 1941

"Japanese camps that America made for them. Didn't trust Japanese citizens"Hongo. Kubota

Hundreds, from small communities in Washington, Cali, Oregon, and Hawaii, were rounded up and after what appeared to be routine questioning, shipped off under Justice Department orders to holding centers in Leuppe" Hongo. Kutbota

"There was nothing to do in the dark but think-actually, wonder and speculate are closer to describing it. All of your senses were straining for input. So much so that you began to see, hear and feel things that were never there" Akaka. "Recollections of Senator Daniel K. Akaka About His Experiences on and about December 7, 1941."

"From the womb of treachery, hatred, greedm and lust.A battle cry is born and so is the battle. From the lips of every American under the sea, in the sky"Lee. "Remember Pearl Harbor"

"How did America come to war? It didn't. War came to America wagging its tail behind it"Lee. "Remember Pearl Harbor"

"By law the United States was neutral when the European war began"Lee. "Remember Pearl Harbor"

"The radicalism of other campuses never existed at Virginia during the depression"Student. "Before Pearl Harbor"http://www.virginia.edu/100yearslawn/papers/stambaugh/pearl-ha.html

"Unemployment rates plummeted with 10 million men and women in the military and those left behind on the home front taking jobs and factories"Press. "The Effects of Pearl Harbor"

The economy got better and America was out of depression

"The War looms ever larger in the like of the University of Virginia as students, alumni, and faculty all prepare for the defense of the nation."

Compared Pearl Harbor to 9/11 because both surprise attack and both

"The attack on Pearl Harbor took the country out of depression"Press."The Effects of Pearl Harbor"

"As a side effect of helping the allies, the U.S. helped to defeat Hitler"Press

"Pearl Harbor and 9/11 nearly mirror each other. Not only did they both occur on an ordinary, regular morning, their outcomes changed both the government and society of the time. President FDR and President George W. Bush declared war against their attackers, ordered a series of acts and laws that were meant to protect the country, when at times, it made racial tension worse"Samantha.07. "Pearl Harbor and 9/11:How They Changed Society"

"Roosevelt froze Japanese assets in the U.S."Higgs. "How US Economic Warfare Provoked Japans Attack on Pearl Harbor"

"hundreds of Japanese fire planes attack the American Naval base at Pearl harbor" "Pearl Harbor"

"The barrage lasted just two hours, but it was devastating"http://www.history.com/topics/pearl-harbor

"Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and almost 200 airplanes."http://www.history.com/topics/pearl-harbor

" More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded"http://www.history.com/topics/pearl-harbor

"The attack on Pearl Harbor ended isolationism in the United States and launched the country into World War II" garden-quest.com Michael Buck

"Japanese Americans "Evacuated" families left behind homes, businesses, pets, land, and most of their belongings. Taking only what they could carry, Japanese Americans were taken by bus and train to assembly centers — hastily converted facilities such as race tracks and fairgrounds. Here they awaited reassignment to the "relocation camps." The Regents of The University of California Relocation and Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/

"Before the Attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese residents experienced a moderate level of racism that was fairly typical for any minority group at the time. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, discrimination against Japanese residents increased both socially and legally"Norman Mineta Japanese American life under U.S. policies before and during World War II source-watch.org

"After December 7, a wave of racist hysteria swept the United States. The FBI immediately began to arrest and detain people of Japanese ancestry who were suspected of "aiding the enemy," even though "not a single documented act of espionage, sabotage or fifth column activity was committed by an American citizen of Japanese ancestry or by a resident Japanese alien on the West Coast." In Norfolk, Virginia, every Japanese person found was immediately jailed." Ronald Takaki Wartime hysteria and internment www.isreview.org

"October 29, 1929, was a dark day in history. "Black Tuesday" is the day that the stock market crashed, officially setting off the Great Depression. Unemployment skyrocketed--a quarter of the workforce was without jobs by 1933 and many people became homeless." the Great Depression ending after the bombing at Pearl Harbor Depression & WWII www.americaslibrary.gov