It all started to get worse for the Japanese Americans when the Japanese ambushed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. This act of aggression aggravated the already existent discrimination against the Japanese immigrants in America. ... Before the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese Americans were already facing a large amount of discrimination. ... Most of the Japanese immigrants and their offspring lived in small, rural farming communities in farming communities in California (93,000 of the total Japanese-American population). ... The internment camps were an experience that most of the Japane...

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The 442nd Regimental Combat Team Imagine this: You are a Japanese American living in the United States. ... After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese Americans faced quite harsh racism. ... This act by the American government shows that they did not trust the Japanese. ... These Japanese Americans were despised so much that Americans often destroyed their property. ... On the other hand, the addition of the Japanese Americans could have given U.S. the disadvantage and Japan the advantage. ...

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Pearl Harbor was one of the most vicious attacks on American soil. ... The United States responded by creating Japanese-American Internment Camps, which uprooted tens of thousands of Japanese-American families. And later America decided to use atomic weapons to end the war with Japan. ... This called for the incarceration of 120,000 Japanese-Americans for up to four years, most of which were legal U.S. citizens. ... The conditions were so harsh that some Japanese Americans died. ...

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., Japanese aircraft carried out a huge surprise attack on the big American air and naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. ... This attack destroyed much of the American Pacific Fleet. ... American participation was an important reason why the Allied nations defeated the Axis nations, which were headed by Japan and Germany. ... This attack destroyed much of the American Pacific Fleet. ... American participation was an important reason why the Allied nations defeated the Axis nations, which were headed by Japan and Germany. ...

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One question I will try to answer for you is why Japan attacked us in Pearl Harbor. In September 1940, the U.S. placed an embargo on Japan by prohibiting exports of steel, scrap iron, and aviation fuel to Japan, due to Japan's takeover of northern French Indochina. ... The U.S. then asked Japanese to leave Manchuria and Southeast Asia, but they refused. ... Our purpose was to frighten the Japanese in the Pacific so that they would hopefully turn around and head back to Japan. ... In two waves in about two hours, the Japanese killed/ wounded over 3,500 Americans and sank 18 ships, (inclu...

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An American then quickly sent an alert: "Air raid Pearl Harbor this is no drill! ... Minutes in the attack, American was successful in shooting down three Japanese planes from the Maryland and Helena. ... He stated "December 7, 1941 a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. " The speech continued on for over six minutes. ... The attack on Pearl Harbor affected every American. This attack seemed as if it brought Americans closer in a sense. ...

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The United States dropped the atomic bomb in Japan in the city of Hiroshima. ... In World War I, a German U-boat sunk the merchant ship the Lusitania, killing many Americans. This made many Americans angry and wanted the United States to enter the war. In World War II, the United States was attacked by Japan at Pearl Harbor. The attack on Pearl Harbor crippled the American Navy The next day the United States declared war on Japan ...

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USA Post-9/11 When the September 11th Tragedy occurred, the American people were devastated. ... (source:www.worldwar2history.info/PearlHarbor) After that though, the incarceration of the immigrant Japanese as well as the Japanese-American population is brought to light. ... After all, there has never been any substantiated proof, to back up a theory that Japanese American spies had any hand in assisting Japanese pilots with the attack. ... However, the Arab-Americans do have one vital, key player on their side, the U.S. ... The Japanese-Americans, however, were not lucky enough to get...

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Where is my America? ... History class, and recall prior knowledge of the Japanese-American internment camps, my fears for my family and myself grow, and I must raise certain questions with my society. ... More recently, is the issue of Japanese internment camps after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. ... Government to order over 100,000 Japanese-Americans to move to the West Coast, to live in barracks complexes called internment camps. ... I have no resent for my American upbringing, government or culture. ...

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Before Pearl Harbor was attacked, America was very scared that Japan might attack the US because of all the neighboring islands in the Pacific that were attacked. The US was right; Japan planned to attack America. ... The Japanese were very cruel to the people in the places the Japanese attacked. The Japanese brutality really upset the American public. ... After Pearl Harbor was bombed, the American people felt a lot of hatred towards the Japanese. ...

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The path to problems between Japan and America started many years before the attack, in the 1930's when Japan tried to conquer all of China. ... America, alarmed by the imperialistic moves that Japan was making, decided to support China financially and militarily. ... America could now decipher some secret messages being sent to and from Japan. The Japanese government saw these acts on behalf of America, an Arsenal of Democracy, as a threat to Japan remaining an independent and surviving nation. ... Unfortunately, America was always one step behind the Japanese. ...

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Although the Japanese got the best of the attack the Americans didnt take it laying down. ... For a split second Japan thought they had broken America's backbone, but at the time they didnt realize what America stood for. ... It was one of the first times that Americans had came all together for a reason. This had affected a lot of Americans lives. They put all the Japanese Americans into camps because they thought that they might have been involved with giving information to the Japanese. ...

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America the ally responded once more. ... This was the perfect location for the American forces in the Pacific because of its location, halfway between the United States west coast and the Japanese military bases in the Marshall Islands. ... He hoped that his attack against the Pacific Fleet would ruin the American forces and get them to sign a peace settlement allowing Japan to remain as the power in the Pacific. ... Starting with the Japanese secret attack on Pearl Harbor, even today America still hasn't forgave Japan for this Cowardly assault on unsuspecting Americans. When reading th...

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Eight American battleships and 13 other naval vessels were sunk or badly damaged and almost 200 American aircraft were destroyed. ... The Americans believed a Japanese attack was imminent, most likely somewhere in Southeast Asia. ... The Americans were taken completely by surprise. ... It instantly united the American people behind the war effort, dashing all Japanese hopes for a negotiated peace. ... Japan was stripped of all conquests, reduced to its home island, and occupied by American forces. ...

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Both sides, American and Japanese are portrayed. The American forces are lead by Admiral Kimmel and the Japanese by Admiral Yamamoto. ... As the movie begins the Japanese are preparing for the attack. ... Various intercepted messages gave the American government a very small amount of concrete information upon which to act. ... As a Harvard graduate and more familiar with the enemy, he believes his country is underestimating the Americans. ...

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Originally, Pearl Harbor was an American NAVY base during World War II and it was attacked by Japanese aircrafts on December 7,1941. This movie is about how America reacted to the Japanese attack, during World War II; it shows how hard it was for America to recover from the attacks made at Pearl Harbor. After Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Americans came up with a plan to bomb Hiroshima, the major city in Japan. ... During the plan to retaliate on Japan for attacking Pearl Harbor, Danny and Rafe got close again, but for a little while. ...

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"Yesterday, December 7th, 1941 -- a date which will live in infamy" -- the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. Five Japanese bombers attacked Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, killing more than 2,400 Americans, destroyed or heavily damaged eight battleships, three cruisers, three destroyers, almost 200 airplanes, an attack that brought the U.S. into war the following day; a surprise attack that put the U.S. right in the middle of war. ... Pacific Fleet to shift its base from San Diego to Hawaii and had begun to build up America...

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The only explanation the film gave was when the Japanese admiral described the mission. He stated that they're going to attack Pearl Harbor since America cut off their oil supply and they were living off an 18 month reserve. Well yes, in fact America did cut off their oil supply but that has nothing to do with why Japan decided to place an attack on one of Americas largest naval bases. ... It could have done better by giving America more of a heroic standing instead of ending on a note where the Japanese seem to have the winning standpoint. ... It teaches a new generation about a part of ...

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Pearl Harbor "Yesterday, Dec. 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan." ... Our government was looking for a way into the war that didn't anger the American people. ... In Japan, Mr. ... The Attack on Pearl Harbor was so important because of what it did to the whole American way of thinking of war especially WWII. ... I do feel that FDR used Pearl Harbor as a way to get into WWII without angering Americans. ...

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So the Japanese carrier continued to prepare for the attack on Pearl Harbor, America's most important pacific naval base and the largest threat to Japan. ... Twenty-five minutes later, the first bomb from a Japanese plane was dropped. ... The Japanese did not attack Pearl Harbor again. ... The most interesting aspect of the book is the way it changes perspectives nearly every chapter, so in one you"re looking critically at the situation as an American, in the next you"re following Sagamaki, a member of the Japanese navy, as he prepares to enter a submarine set t...

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While incidents similar to the Pearl Harbor attack were unconsciously expected by many Americans as they were watching in great detail struggles on European scenes of war, they still couldn't accept such a miserable defeat of their naval base. Just like Hitler blamed the German Jews for the defeat of Germany in WWI, Americans came to blame the American Japanese for the defeat of their forces in Pearl Harbor. As there was no evidence of the German Jews activities against their German government also there was no conclusive evidence of even a single American Japanese engaged in betrayal aga...

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Seventy years after the event that changed America, a memory of silence across the nation honors the tragic events of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor on November 7th at 7:55 AM Hawaii time. At this time in history, a surprise attack by the Japanese caught America completely off guard, resulting in 2,400 American deaths, 12 sunk ships, and 188 aircraft carriers destroyed, and ultimately leading the US into World War II. ... Roosevelt declared war on Japan on December 8th, stating that the attack would go down in history as a "date which will live in infamy" (Lynch). ... William Muehleib...

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In May 1942 he became the first African American to receive the Navy Cross, presented for courage under fire. ... The pilots who flew the air attack were combat veterans of the Japanese war in China. ... Also, the Japanese carrier-based fighter, the A6M Zero, was greatly superior to the U.S. ... The total Japanese losses in the attack were 29 aircraft, of the 350 involved in the attack; 54 fliers were killed in those aircraft and another was killed in an aircraft that returned safely to the Japanese carriers. ... In May 1942 code breakers predicted that a Japanese invasion force, including f...

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Good American strategy would be to help Moscow while it was still afloat. ... Because of this, Americans didn't want to stay neutral anymore. ... After the fall of France, Americans were confronted with a dilemma. ... Americans also wanted to stop Japan's conquests in the Far East. ... To prevent Japan from expanding, the US sought to cut off vital Japanese supplies, which could lead to a reaction form the Japanese. ...

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Ben Affleck played Rafe McCawley, Josh Hartnett played Danny Walker, and Katie Beckinsale played Evelyn Johnson. 5) This film enhanced my understanding of Pearl Harbor because it gave me a visual aid of how the army wasn't ready when the Japanese pilots flew in and started bombing. ... The scene that was especially accurate was the part when the Japanese pilots came onto Pearl Harbor by surprise and all the American soliders were going on as business as usual. The Japanese pilots dropped bombs as soon as they got there and kept on going even if it ...

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