Terms • Roberts Report • Executive Order 9066 • yellow-peril • War Relocation Authority (WRA) • Topaz (internment camp) • Rosie the Riveter
Terms Roberts Report Executive Order 9066 yellow-peril War Relocation Authority (WRA) Topaz (internment camp) Rosie the Riveter.
Dec 22, 2015
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Terms
• Roberts Report• Executive Order 9066• yellow-peril• War Relocation Authority (WRA)• Topaz (internment camp)• Rosie the Riveter
War Begins (Again)1939-1941
• FDR publicly expressed both a desire to stay “neutral” and support for the British & French
• Again, arguments were presented by both “isolationists” and “interventionists.”
• 1940: FDR won a third term with nearly 55% of the popular vote.
• January 1941: FDR’s State of the Union speech emphasized the need for the US to defend “four essential freedoms”: speech/expression, worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: 7 December 1941
Damages
• 350 Japanese planes dropped torpedoes and bombs on the US Naval base at Hawaii, known as Pearl Harbor.
• 8 US battleships were sunk or severely damaged
• 2403 Americans were killed• December 8, 1941: Congress declares war
against Japan; only Representative Jeannette Rankin dissented.
War Relocation Authority Camps
Arriving at Topaz
The Terrain
Children at the Camp
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