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Terms

• Roberts Report• Executive Order 9066• yellow-peril• War Relocation Authority (WRA)• Topaz (internment camp)• Rosie the Riveter

War Begins (Again)1939-1941

• FDR publicly expressed both a desire to stay “neutral” and support for the British & French

• Again, arguments were presented by both “isolationists” and “interventionists.”

• 1940: FDR won a third term with nearly 55% of the popular vote.

• January 1941: FDR’s State of the Union speech emphasized the need for the US to defend “four essential freedoms”: speech/expression, worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.

Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: 7 December 1941

Damages

• 350 Japanese planes dropped torpedoes and bombs on the US Naval base at Hawaii, known as Pearl Harbor.

• 8 US battleships were sunk or severely damaged

• 2403 Americans were killed• December 8, 1941: Congress declares war

against Japan; only Representative Jeannette Rankin dissented.

War Relocation Authority Camps

Arriving at Topaz

The Terrain

Children at the Camp