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442nd Regimental Combat Team Historical Society:wwii Japanese American Soldiers
Travel the history of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team through these primary documents preserved from WWII. Topics include the activation and origin of the team, and battle history, honors and tributes.
The History Cat
The History Cat: Japanese Internment
Discover why in 1942 the Japanese Americans living in California were moved away from the coast and its vital military installations and put into relocation camps.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Japanese Internment
Discusses the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, an action that resulted from Franklin D. Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066. The constitutionality of the order was challenged all the way to the Supreme Court by Fred...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Asian Pacific American Heritage
Nice Scholastic site that looks at what it means to be an Asian Pacific American. Includes stories from Angel Island, Japanese Americans during WWII, and background on and interviews with notable Asian Americans.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: American Women and World War Ii
Read about the opportunities that women had during World War II to work in jobs that had previously been unimaginable. To assist working mothers, the first childcare programs were begun, and efforts were made to make jobs in the defense...
Digital Public Library of America
Dpla: Prisoners at Home: Everyday Life in Japanese Internment Camps
This exhibition tells stories of everyday lives in Japanese Internment camps during World War II.
Library of Congress
Loc: Japanese Immigration
A detailed account of the saga of Japanese immigration to America, first to Hawaii, then encountering resistance on the U.S. Mainland, encountering difficulties during WWII, and rebuilding a community.
US National Archives
Our Documents: Executive Order: Resulting in the Relocation of Japanese
Summarizes the background behind this order that moved people of Japanese ancestry to relocation centers in 1942. Provides a link to an image of the original document and a copy of the text.
Huntington Library
Huntington Library: Constitution on Trial: Internment of Japanese in Wwii
In this lesson, 11th graders look at what happened to the Japanese who were living in the United States during World War II and examine their experiences of internment. They will also consider the constitutionality of removing some civil...
University of California
History Project: The Evacuation of the Japanese Following Pearl Harbor
Lesson on Japanese internment during WWII in which students read and analyze original text to recount events and then evaluate the consequences brought about by domestic policies after Pearl Harbor.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: American Masters Collection: Dorothea Lange
This is a collection of four video lessons about Dorothea Lange, an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work, and her works. Teaching materials are included.
History Link
History Link: Korean Americans in King County
Fascinating history of Korean Americans in the Seattle/King County area. Includes the basics of Korean history and some short biographies of prominent Korean Americans.
PBS
Pbs: Sister Wendy's American Collection: Netsuke
Webpage describing a netsuke, a small decorative Japanese toggle, from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Image of art provided as well as an option of a larger version or a detail viewer that can be navigated. Also includes a quote...
US National Archives
Our Documents: A National Initiative on American History, Civics, and Service
Our Documents is home to one hundred milestone documents that influenced that course of American history and American democracy. Includes full-page scans of each document, transcriptions, background information on their significance, and...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1890 1945: Japanese Internment
Unfounded fears that Japanese American citizens might sabotage the war effort led Franklin Delano Roosevelt to order that all Americans of Japanese descent be forced into internment camps.
Michigan State University
Michigan State University: Msu Libraries: Digital Collections: Asian America
A collection of primary source documents and books that detail the racial discrimination Chinese and Japanese immigrants faced in the U.S. during America's involvement in the Second World War. One report from 1877 looks at Chinese...
Michigan State University
Michigan State University: Granada Relocation Center
A great primary source document (1943) from the War Relocation Authority describing the Japanese internment camp located at Amache, Colorado. Details are provided on the camp, conditions of the Japanese Americans, how they governed...
Curated OER
National Park Service: Confinement and Ethnicity
Confinement and Ethnicity: An Overview of World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites, by J. Burton, M. Farrell, F. Lord, and R. Lord, is an online book no longer in print. It describes the internment and imprisonment of...
PBS
Pbs: The War: Daniel Inouye
At the online companion site of the PBS documentary series "THE WAR," read the biography of a Japanese American soldier, Daniel Inouye, who served during WWII, and became a U.S. Senator from Hawaii. With links to related resources,...
American Academy of Achievement
Academy of Achievement: Daniel K. Inouye
Biography of senator and Medal of Honor recipient, Daniel Inouye a Japanese-American serving in World War II who made many longstanding contributions to American government and political life.
University of Washington
University of Washington: Camp Harmony Exhibit
In the spring of 1942, just months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, more than 100,000 residents of Japanese ancestry were forcefully evicted by the army from their homes in Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona and Alaska, and sent...
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University of Arkansas at Little Rock: Life Interrupted
The history of Japanese Americans during World War II. Includes videos, pictures, and maps.
PBS
Pbs: The War: At Home
From the extensive PBS site accompanying Ken Burns' The War, read about America at home during World War II. Read about war mobilization, censorship, how families dealt with the war, and the abrogation of civil rights as Japanese...
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National Council for the Social Studies: Fear, Panic, and Injustice
What did it feel like to have to leave your home and possessions to live in a camp during WWII because you were a Japanese-American? Learners will understand the climate of fear during this time and develop empathy toward the families...
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