discussing difficult questions

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[slugge...@yahoo.com]

this is the only question i didn't understand:
number 10. What problems did the Japanese attack solve for FDR...

[Max to the Borg]

it made it easier to change the American attitude into a more
supportive one for war.

-Max

[J. Pizzle]

First the Americans were like: maybe we wanna fight the war, maybe not.
Then Pearl Harbor got bombed and all of a sudden they were all like:
oh snap we got bombed lets go bomb some japs. So Pearl Harbor rallied
the United States behind their flag.

[whit...@gmail.com]

I don't remember the underclared shooting war with Germany (question
7)...?

[slugge...@yahoo.com]

The American destroyer was attacked by a German sumbarine while they
were escorting British ships carrying lend-lease materials from US
shores as far as Iceland. In response, Roosevelt ordered the navy to
attack all German ships.

so this was undeclared shooting

[happykit...@yahoo.com]

could someone varify this for me? didn't the japanese signed a treaty
or somekind of document with America before the Pearl Harbor attack?

[Max to the Borg]

For #24, how did the german american treatment differ from the japanese
americans?
I JUS DONT UNDERSTAND!!!!!!!!

-max

[jedimafia]

There was no treaty or negotiation signed by the Japs with U.S but
there was several attempts to. the japs wanted U.S to change their
policy regarding oil.

[happykit...@yahoo.com]

the American government moved most Japanese american families to camps
where they live in groups in middle of no where instead of CA.

[akada...@gmail.com]

for Max's question, at home, becuase we were fighting Germany and
Japan, were the treatments of germans and Japanese in America the
same.. i.e. were they both prejudiced against and if they were was it
to the same level... also the nature of allied bombing raids on
germany??? i have no idea....

[whit...@gmail.com]

I thought that one aspect of the increased hatred toward Japanese
Americans was because many believed that the Japanese Americans had
played a role in the attack on Pearl Harbor, whereas there had been no
German attack on US soil.

[becca]

People were just mad racist...federal treatment of the Japanese
Americans was one of the few ways that Americans focused on national
issues during WWII, rather than international. The availabilty of jobs
and decreased economic pressure brought up civil rights issues for the
African Americans (less widespread depression, more concentrated in
African American and Mexican American socities). But remember how
German culture was rejected in America during WWI? A lot of animosity
towards the Japanese probably stemmed from the national idea that
Japanese were the enemy, and why would Americans want their culture or
their people to have any part in American society? An attack on the
Japanese immigrants and Japanese Americans was the only way Americans
could bring WWII on to their soil, uniting Americans behind defeating a
more recognizable enemy.