- Id the following people:
- General Douglas MacArthur
- Admiral Chester Nimitz
- Midway
- Pearl Harbor
- Guadalcanal
- Doolittle Raid
- Admiral Yamamoto isoroku
Places:
- Aleutian Islands
- Hawaiian Islands
- Japan
- China
- Philippines
- Dutch East Indies (Indonesia)
- Papua-New Guinea
- Australia
- Objectives:
- Articulate the overall Japanese strategy for 1941–1942, and to assess how successful it was
- Discuss Allied strategy for 1941–1942, and to assess how successful it was
- Identify on a map locations that were important to the early war in the Pacific
- Identify the most important military engagements as well as to explain their significance
- Discuss anti-Japanese sentiment in the United States, and how it affected the way the Pacific War was fought.
Use the following link to discover information on the war in the Pacific....
http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/turning-tide-pacific-1941-1943#sect-activities
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“Causes of Incarceration”:
http://www.densho.org/causes/default.asp
The U.S. was also at war with Italy and Germany during WWII, so why were only people of Japanese ancestry incarcerated as a group?
The decision to incarcerate all individuals of Japanese ancestry living on the West Coast in 1942 was influenced by decades of anti-Asian attitudes--ingrained in U.S. institutions, laws and the majority population. During a time when discrimination was accepted by many as part of American culture, special-interest groups formed to stir anti-Japanese feelings and actions. Racial discrimination was legal and established in policies and laws at the city, state and federal level. Media perpetuated negative myths and stereotypes of Japanese people as less than human
Research the following United States Supreme Court decisions...
Korematsu v. United States
Ex Parte Endo
http://www.densho.org/causes/default.asp
The U.S. was also at war with Italy and Germany during WWII, so why were only people of Japanese ancestry incarcerated as a group?
The decision to incarcerate all individuals of Japanese ancestry living on the West Coast in 1942 was influenced by decades of anti-Asian attitudes--ingrained in U.S. institutions, laws and the majority population. During a time when discrimination was accepted by many as part of American culture, special-interest groups formed to stir anti-Japanese feelings and actions. Racial discrimination was legal and established in policies and laws at the city, state and federal level. Media perpetuated negative myths and stereotypes of Japanese people as less than human
Research the following United States Supreme Court decisions...
Korematsu v. United States
Ex Parte Endo