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WWII: Affected many ethnic groups, different religions, and more...
Names:


 * Chinatsu- Jen Eng
 * Veronica Silvers- Ariel
 * Litoya Jones- Gabby Jackson
 * Bonnie McKinnon- Sarah Martin

I. Research-

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 * Ariel: Jewish-American
 * In one 1938 poll, 41 percent of respondents agreed that Jews had "too much power in the United States," and this figure rose to 58 percent by 1945. In 1939 a Roper poll found that only thirty-nine percent of Americans felt that Jews should be treated like other people. Fifty-three percent believed that "Jews are different and should be restricted" and ten percent believed that Jews should be deported. Several surveys taken from 1940 to 1946 found that Jews were seen as a greater threat to the welfare of the United States than any other national, religious, or racial group.
 * Jews also noted the influence of anti-Semitism when the U.S. State Department opposed efforts to lower immigration barriers to admit Jews and other refugees fleeing the Holocaust and Nazi-occupied Europe.During the 1930s and 1940s, right-wing demagogues linked the Depression of the 1930s, the New Deal, President Franklin Roosevelt, and the threat of war in Europe to the machinations of an imagined international Jewish conspiracy that was both communist and capitalist.


 * A new ideology appeared which accused “the Jews” of dominating Franklin Roosevelt’s administration, of causing the Great Depression, and of dragging the US into WW2 against a new Germany which deserved but admiration.


 * Having never been subjected to the Holocaust, the United States stood after the Second World War as the largest, richest, and healthiest center of Judaism in the world. Smaller Jewish communities turned increasingly to American Jewry for guidance and support.
 * //Jen: Japanese-American //
 * Executive Order 9066
 * February 19, 1942- signed by President Roosevelt
 * Concerted about Japanese ownership around the agricultural business
 * Worried that Japanese people where going to sabotages them through the food they produced
 * Authorized army bases for people to be interned
 * Mass removed people from the west coast and took place over 8 months
 * Only take what they could carry
 * Pets left behind
 * <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">FBI agents after pearl harbor arrested over 1,000 Japanese people. Had no warrant or reason for arrest. Took prominent figures like priests, teachers, newspaper editors, and officers in community organizations.
 * <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">People in Latin America were also put into US internment camps.

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 * //<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Gabby: African-American //
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Start of WWII: African-Americans left the South to find jobs in the North. The percentage of African-Americans working in skilled or semiskilled jobs rose from 16-30%.
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Family Life: Families were restiricted to racially segregated neighborhoods and reservations and denied basic citizenship rights. An editorail in an African-American newspaper wrote: **"Why die for democracy for some foreign country when we don't even have it here?"**
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Work Experiences: War production plants refused to hire African-Americans. However, black leaders threatened a huge protest march in Washington, D.C. In response, President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 8802 outlawing discrimination in government-contracted work.Companies started hiring 2 milion minority workers.


 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Recruitment: African-Americans, along with other minorities, were segregated in the military. About one million African-Americans also served in the military. They lived and worked in segregated units and were limited mostly to noncombat roles. Only towards the end of the war, did they go to the front lines. After the war ended, they returned home to face segregation and racisim once more.


 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Relationships: Minorites being integrated into the workforce, flared between white and blacks. Racial tension came to a head in the summer of 1943 African-Americans in Detroit riots fought police and defended themselves from white mobs. The violence spread to cities around the nation.


 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Fame: A famous African-American unit was the 92nd Infantry Division; nicknamed the Buffaloes. The Buffaloes won 7 Legion of Merit Awards, 65 Silver Stars, and 162 Bronze Stars for courage under fire.


 * Sarah: Women/Housewife