Internment camps were the forced relocation of Japanese citizens and immigrants following the Pearl Harbor bombing of 1942. Nearly 115,000 Japanese, 62% of which were American citizens, were sent to these camps primarily on the West coast. This was due largely in part to the fear that the Japanese were trying to collect American secrets to give to the Emperor Hirohito. FDR legalized the deportation and incarceration of Japanese via executive order 9066. This internment continued until 1946, or the end of the war.
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Woman played a major role both on the homefront and abroad. On the homefront, there was a big push for able women to work, something that many of them we not used to. At the time is was still normal for men to be the bread winners and women to stay at home. With the start of WWII and the draft, most able-bodied working age men were no longer working in factories. This is where the woman came in, stepping up and filling the men’s shoes in factories across the nation to produce the amount of munitions needed to win the war. After the war ended though, many women were fired or pushed out of their jobs from returning men. However this taste of independence was the jolt women needed to push for equal employment opportunities, something women are still working towards today.
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Rationing was the monitoring and careful provision of goods to civilians during war time to ensure that the forces overseas had enough of a particular product. People would bring their rationing booklets to the stores and could only get so much of a specific good.
Propaganda was the use of newspaper and radio to convey government sponsored messages to the citizens of the U.S., whether it was uniting us against the Germans or encouraging victory gardens propaganda is what won the war on the homefront.
Fred Korematsu brought a case against executive order 9066 to the Supreme Court challenging the constitutionality of internment camp. The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to side with the government ruling the need to protect against espionage outweighed Korematsu’s individual rights.