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This 5 page paper discusses the buildup of events which led to the internment of thousands of Japanese-Americans during WWII. Examples are given from Return to Manzanar by Jeanne Watkatsuki Houston. Quotes cited from text and referenced. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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wars would state that the internment of Japanese-Americans was a shameful time in American history. (thesis)This period of history leads one to wonder what it was that generated so much
fear and paranoia as to feel the need to lock up innocent and productive citizens of its own country. Of course, nothing about World War II was predictable. Though
the country had already been through World War I, it can be said that so much time had lapsed that when World War II began, most of the people in
the United States were unaffected or moved by the escalating hostilities. It would only be after the bombing of Pearl Harbor that Americans would begin to look to Europe to
see what sorts of horrors may await America as they entered the war. With sickening clarity, they were shown photographs of war prisoners in Germany, were told of whole
towns being leveled by the German machinery. Fearing that the same fate awaited them at the hands of the Japanese, widespread and irrational paranoia swept the nation. Families who had
been pillars of the community, had been respected shopkeepers, teachers, or scientists, were now viewed with suspicion. The day that lived in infamy as coined by the President when
the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, was awe inspiring to some, comforting to others, but to the millions of Japanese-Americans who were rounded up and taken to internment camps, it was
purely ironic. It can be said that it was ironic for the pure fact that while America was fighting to secure the freedoms that America supposedly stood for, millions of
her citizens were considered disloyal or a threat, based on their ethnic backgrounds. Against such a backdrop is Jeanne Watkatsuki Houstons book, Farewell to Manzanar. The impact and impressions that
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