Background Information
What Happened
- Japaneses attacked Pearl Harbor in 7 Dec. 1941.
- Japanese Launched 181 planes from aircraft carriers nearby at 6 a.m.
- Japanese used a surprise attack, but a Japaneses submarine was spotted and the entrance of the Harbor and was shot at by the USS Ward.
- At 7:00 a.m., an alert operator of an Army radar station at Opana spotted the approaching first wave of the attack force.
- Other officers didn't believed that it was an attack because American planes were due to fly that morning.
- The Japanese Aircrew hit U.S airfields at the same time as the U.S Fleet was hit in pearl harbor.
- Over 90 ships were anchored in battleship row at Pearl harbor.
- Second wave of 170 Japaneses planes launched 8:30 A.M.
- The attack was over by 10 A.M.
Executive Order
- Executive order 9066.
- Sign by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- All Japanese Americas got arrested and placed in internment camps.
- Alot of Americans would put up signs saying they didn't want Japaneses people around, or would vandalize their homes and place signs at stores.
- Japanese Americans would place signs over there stores or homes saying they are Americans as shown in the following link. http://the-seed-of-europe.tumblr.com/post/30670111673/this-store-owned-by-a-man-of-japanese-ancestry-is.
- This caused mass hysteria because people would see Japaneses people as terrorist or spys for the Japaneses empire.
The speech that FDR gives the day after the attack on pearl harbor. FDR declares war on Japanese empire.
Internment camps
- Crowed areas.
- Lived in shacks.
- In the beginning camps were not ready, in mean while they lived in shacks on race tracks , Fairgrounds, or livestock pavilion.
- Fenced up communities just like animals.
Important people
Fred Korematsu
- Important People of this event were Fred Korematsu, Gordon Hirabayashi and Minoru Yasui.
- All of these people tried to stop Japaneses Internment camps.
- Filed a lawsuit vs. United States.
- Korematsu Believed internment camps were inhumane.
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTvYFVhqm_E This video shows what Korematsu stood for what he believed was right.