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Chris Park
 * Japanese American**


 * **After Pearl Harbor, Americans distrusted the Japanese Americans because they thought that they were spies from Japan.**
 * **President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which had the effect of relocating all persons of Japanese ancestry.**
 * **Roosevelt’s order affected 117,000 Japanese Americans and 2/3 of whom were born in America.**
 * **Executive Order 9066 forced the Japanese Americans to leave their homes and relocate to relocation centers.**
 * **Relocation centers were camps that the Japanese were sent to until the war was over.**
 * **These camps were supposed to protect the Japanese, but the irony is that the guards at the camps were pointing guns towards the Japanese people.**

http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/japanese-relocation/

Nick DeCotiis- African American


 * During war the African Americans couldn’t work until the soldiers left for battle.
 * Some African Americans would be able to work in factories.
 * Some would go into the war
 * Still be segregated, in war they would fight in different places. Get paid less in factories
 * Listened to jazz
 * At end of war African Americans got treated better
 * They had more rights
 * Treated more equal
 * Some lost job after war because soldiers would come back and need jobs.

http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/columnists/oldschoolblues/blog/2008/05/youre_old_school_if_you_were_a_1.html (notes)

Women During WW2- Christian Vergnes

The government decided to launch a propaganda campaign to sell the importance of the war effort and to lure women into working. Rosie the Riveter was the ideal girl they portrayed women to be.

They wanted these girls to be loyal, efficient, patriotic, and pretty

Women had to work hard to show they could do a mans job

\The government had told the women that their jobs would only be temporary.

The government also passed the executive order 8802 which did not allow companies not to hire people based on race or sex.

Men had a tough time accepting the women into the work force.

Jewish American- Anthony Fontana

All American industries were changed to support war. Henry Ford’s factory in Richmond stopped making personal cars and started to build Sherman tanks.

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The government introduced rations for certain products. War ration books and tokens were given to each American family, dictating how much gasoline, tires, sugar, meat, silk, shoes, nylon and other items any one person could buy. The government set a national speed limit of 35 miles per hour to conserve gas.

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Jewish communities were set up around the country. They needed to set up their own communities to avoid discrimination. As they were setting up they also were splitting apart. Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform Jews communities were set up.

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