U.S. History Agenda
2/27/17
*Copy agenda down on your notebook. (Phones and earphones
should be put away & backpacks should be behind you or on the
floor).
1)Quiz #1 WWII
2)CSA test on Thursday 3/2/17
U.S. History Agenda
2/21/17
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should be put away & backpacks should be behind you or on the
floor).
1) Warm up #6
2) Lesson #5 Japanese Internment
3) Primary source analysis
4) Exit Slip #8
Warm Up #6
What does an American look like?
Sentence Starter:
In my opinion, an American looks
like_______
Exit Slip # 8
Why were Japanese Americans
interned during World War II?
American minority groups make special
contributions to the war efforts in WWII?
Sentence starters:
Japanese Americans were interned
during World War II because ______.
Lecture #6 Japanese
Internment
FLT: I will be able to investigate the
internment of Japanese Americans in
the U.S. during WWII.
Japanese Americans relocated
 Executive Order 9066
= President FDR passed
this law for Japanese
relocation after Pearl
Harbor
 2/3 of those interned
were nisei, or Japanese
Americans who were
native-born American
citizens
 Why do you believe that
Japanese Americans were
targeted and not the other
two? Why were Germans
and Italians not treated the
same way?
Korematsu v. United States
 Fred Korematsu refused to
be imprisoned
 Supreme Court ruled
national security and
“military necessity” was
more important than any
individual’s rights
 Later overturned; In 1990,
President Ronald Reagan
issued $20,000 to every
internment prisoner in
reparations
Essential question:
Why were Japanese Americans
interned during World War II?
Japanese Internment investigation
Read and annotate your primary
sources on the internment of
Japanese Americans
Fill the Japanese internment
graphic organizer
Japanese internment during WWII
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
p8ZvhUcHrQU
Take notes on the things that stand
out to you from the video.
Fil in the graphic organizer under
Round one
Document A – Government Newsreel
U.S. Government explanation, 1942
This film was made by the gov. to
explain the for interning Japanese
Americans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=5_rk3RP5KQs
Document A – Government Newsreel
Share out Hypothesis 1- Discussion
Questions:
1. What were some of the reasons for
internment offered in the newsreel?
2. How does the newsreel portray
internment? Is it positive or negative?
3. Who do you think the audience was
for this newsreel?
Document B – The Munson Report
Document C – The Crisis Article
Share out Hypothesis 2- Discussion Questions:
1. Has your hypothesis changed? Why or why
not?
2. Do you find these documents more or less
trustworthy than the government newsreel?
Why or why not?
3. Why is the date of the Munson report
important?
Document D – Korematsu v. U.S.A.
Document E – Personal Justice Denied
Share out final Hypothesis -- Discussion
Questions:
1. Which of these documents do you
think has a better explanation of
Japanese internment? Why?
2. Why were Japanese Americans
interned during WWII? Use evidence.
U.S. History Agenda
2/23/17
*Copy agenda down on your notebook. (Phones and earphones
should be put away & backpacks should be behind you or on the
floor).
1) Warm up #7
2) Finish Lesson #6 Japanese
Internment
3) Japanese experience video
4) Muslim “Interment” today
5) Exit Slip #8
Exit Slip # 8
Why were Japanese Americans
interned during World War II?
American minority groups make special
contributions to the war efforts in WWII?
Sentence starters:
Japanese Americans were interned
during World War II because ______.
Warm Up #7
Why were Japanese Americans
interned during WWII?
 Sentence Starter:
In my opinion, Japanese Americans were
interned during WWII because______
After Pearl Harbor, Japan takes more land in the Pacific
Philippines-(Dec-Apr ‘42) US colony, US holds out for 5 months, US vows to
return.
*Bataan Death March- 85 mi. US, Eng., & Aus. POWs (prisoners of war),
140,000 soldiers died, forced march to prison camp .
Bushido- code of honor (Japanese believe in death before surrender,
surrender is cowardly and reflects on family forever, those who do
surrender are cowards and deserve to die.
*March 1942- Japan controls much of Asia and Pacific.
Summary
 *attack on Pearl Harbor united America’s commitment to
winning
war (took
Lecture
#2:4 years)
Summary :
 *enemies shocked at speed US produced ships, planes,
arms, and supplies for war (mobilization of industry)
 *minorities begin to demand equal rights
 *war ends the depression (Gov. spending triples and jobs
are created to make war supplies)
 Japan takes over the pacific
Muslim “internment” today
Read and annotate the document
on Muslim Americans today.
Answer the following guiding
questions.