Document #8:

“Persons of Japanese ancestry arrive at the Santa Anita Assembly Center from San Pedro. Evacuees lived at this center at the former Santa Anita race track before being moved inland to relocation centers.” Clem Albers, Arcadia, CA, April 5, 1942.

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Document #6:

Sign in store window during World War II

Document #5:

Poem, “First they came…” by Martin Niemoller

“In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist;

And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist;

And then they came for the Jews, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew;

And then . . . they came for me . . . And by that time there was no one left to speak up.”

Document #4:

Translation of a leaflet (note) dropped on the Japanese, August 6, 1945 (day bomb was dropped on Hiroshima)

“TO THE JAPANESE PEOPLE:

America asks that you take immediate heed (notice) of what we say in this leaflet.

We are in possession of the most destructive explosice ever devised by man.  A single one of our newly developed atomic bombs is actually the equivalent in explostive power to what 2000 of our giant B-29s (planes) can carry on a single mission…

We have just begun to use this weapon against your homeland.  if you still have any doubt, make inquiry as to what happened to Hiroshima when just one atomic bomb fell on that city.

Before using this bomb to destroy every resource of [your] military… we ask that you now petition (ask) the Emporer to end the war…

Otherwise, we shall [use] this bomb and all our other superior weapons to promptly and forcefully end the war.

EVACUATE YOUR CITIES”

Document #3:

Oral Account About Japanese Internment, Told by Yuri Tateshi

“It was terrible because you had to sell everything.  Of course, we got nothing for it, because we had such a short time to go.  The day before we left, we all slept on the floor, cooked on the floor, and ate on the floor.

When we first got to Manzanar [a Japanese internment camp], we were given numbers.  We went to the mess hall [cafeteria], and we were given meals in tin plates and tin cups.  It was canned hot dogs and canned spinach.

After eating, we were taken to our room.  The floors were boarded, boy you could see the ground below.  What hurt most was seeing hay mattresses.  We were used to a regular home.  All of us were in one room.  We felt like prisoners.”

Document #2:

World War II U.S. Propaganda Poster

Document #1:

World War II U.S. Propaganda Poster

Click on the Multimedia Map and Timeline. Click on “Full Story” to get more detailed information on at least 10 of the events on the timeline.

Once you have read the timeline, write a detailed summary of the attack on Pearl Harbor (in your SS notebook).  Use details from the timeline.

Then write at least 3 beyond the text questions.

1) Basic bio info (when they were born and when they died, family, education, etc.)

2) What did they do to contribute to World War II?