The Quiet Americans: Japanese Exiles at Home
Questions
1. How many Japanese Americans were incarcerated in WWII? ______________
2. When Japanese immigrated to the U.S. –what three predominant cities did most settle?
a. _____________________________________
b. _____________________________________
c. _____________________________________
3. What type of jobs did most take when they immigrated to the US?
a. _____________________________________
b. ______________________________________
c. ______________________________________
d. ______________________________________
4. Describe the Japanese Exclusion League. ___________________________________
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5. What types of laws were passed in California/other Western states to discriminate
against the Japanese immigrants? ____________________________________________
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6. What was the “Gentlemen’s Agreement?” And how did some Japanese immigrants
get “around” it? __________________________________________________________
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7. What did the FBI do immediately after Pearl Harbor? __________________________
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8. What is a Nisei? ________________________________________________________
9. What did California Gov. Olson recommend Japanese Americans do after Pearl
Harbor? ________________________________________________________________
10. Who were the “quiet Americans?” ________________________________________
11. Congressmen, elected officials, and newspapermen soon called for the
______________________ of Japanese Americans from the West coast.
12. Two reasons Americans were leaning towards moving Japanese Americans was
a. in part on fear of ___________________________________________
b. but also _____________________________________
The Quiet Americans: Japanese Exiles at Home
Questions
13. What did Martin Dies accuse Japanese Americans of doing?
a. _____________________________
b. _____________________________
14. What did the investigation into possible espionage on the part of Japanese Americans
find? ___________________________________________________________________
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15. What did J.Edgar Hoover believe the “necessity for mass evacuation” was based on?
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16. What did Lt. Gen. John De Witt use as his excuse to evacuate the West coast of
Japanese Americans? ______________________________________________________
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17. What did Attorney General Biddle and Army Chief of Staff Marshall decide about
the possible need to evacuate Japanese Americans? ______________________________
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18. Who did the ultimate decision on whether to evacuate the Japanese Americans lay
with in the US government? ______________
19. What reservations did Secretary of War, Stimson have about the evacuation?
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20. Eventually, the decision was made based upon the vaguely defined reason of
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21. The authorization was to evacuate _________________________ to concentration
camps in the Executive Order ___________.
22. Why was there little public objection to the evacuation? ______________________
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23. What could Japanese Americans take with them to the camps? _________________
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The Quiet Americans: Japanese Exiles at Home
Questions
24. What did they do with all the possessions they could not take with them? _________
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25. Describe a typical “barrack” home for the Japanese American evacuee in the camps?
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26. Where did many Japanese Americans work outside the camps? _________________
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27. Why were the 442nd Combat Team so unique? ______________________________
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28. Towards the end of the first year, there was little reason left for keeping the Japanese
Americans in the camps; however, why did it take so long to release them? __________
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29. What did the US government provide Japanese Americans when they were released
from the camps? __________________________________________________________
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30. How did the US government do to “make amends” to the Japanese Americans?
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