JAPAN in WWII

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JAPAN in WWII
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Attack on Pearl Harbor

• DEC. 7, 1941 A single, carefully-planned and
  well-executed attack removed the United States
  Navy's battleship force as a possible threat to
  the Japanese Empire's southward expansion.
• America, unprepared and now considerably
  weakened, was abruptly brought into the Second
  World War as a full combatant.
• So what happened?

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Pearl Harbor Attack

• July 1940 President Franklin D. Roosevelt had
  transferred the United States Fleet to Pearl
  Harbor as a deterrent to Japanese aggression.
• The Japanese military was deeply engaged in the
  war it had started against China in mid-1937, and
  badly needed oil and other raw materials.
• July 1941 The Western powers effectively halted
  trade with Japan. A Pacific war was virtually
  inevitable because the Japanese were desperate
  and schemed to seize the oil and mineral-rich
  East Indies and Southeast Asia

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Attack on Pearl Harbor

• November 1941 U.S. officials were expecting a
  Japanese attack into the Indies, Malaya and
  probably the Philippines.
• The U.S. Fleet's Pearl Harbor base was reachable
  by an aircraft carrier force. Japans planes hit
  just before 8 am December 7th.
• Within a short time five of eight battleships at
  Pearl Harbor were sunk or sinking, with the rest
  damaged. Several other ships and most
  Hawaii-based combat planes were also knocked out
  and over 2400 Americans were dead. Soon after,
  Japanese planes eliminated much of the American
  air force in the Philippines, and a Japanese Army
  was ashore in Malaya. (now Malaysia)
• These great Japanese successes, achieved without
  prior diplomatic formalities, shocked and enraged
  the previously divided American people into a
  level of purposeful unity hardly seen before or
  since.

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JapaneseCanadians in the 1940s
Canadas National Flag
Japans National Flag
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Overview

• Early in the war, many Japanese-Canadians
  volunteered to fight with the Canadian forces.
• Canadians were suspicious of populations
  connected with enemy countries.
• After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour,
  JapaneseCanadians began to be treated unfairly
  by the Canadian government.
• They were denied the right to vote and to own
  property because of their association with Japan
  in WWII.

JapaneseCanadians from British Columbia were
forced to work on farms throughout Canada, often
for little to no pay at all.
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JapaneseCanadians in 1941

• After Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in Hawaii in
  1941, Canadians became suspicious of Japanese
  Canadians within our borders.
• There were 23,000 people of Japanese decent
  living in Canada during WWII.
• 22,000 of them were located in British Columbia.
• The government wanted to protect Canada from
  possible terrorism, and formed internment camps
  for Japanese Canadians.

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Internment Camps

• Early in 1942 there were several antiJapanese
  marches in Vancouver.
• In spite of these marches, only 750
  JapaneseCanadians moved voluntarily.
• They received hostile greetings from local
  residents in the Okanagan Valley.
• The government was unhappy with the small number
  who moved.
• In March 1942 all JapaneseCanadians were rounded
  up and sent to internment camps in British
  Columbia.

An internment camp for Japanese Canadians
during WWII.
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Conditions of Camps

• Camps were secured with armed guards.
• Japanese Canadians slept in dormitory style
  wooden huts.
• There were no flushing toilets or running water
  in these huts.
• Quality of life in these camps was very
  primitive.

Inside a Japanese internment camp.
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Deportation of JapaneseCanadians

• The Canadian government offered all
  JapaneseCanadians free passage to Japan.
• People who refused were interned.
• In 1942 the Canadian government began deporting
  people of Japanese decent.
• More than 4000 people were deported, many of whom
  had never been to Japan in their lives.
• Families were torn apart.

JapaneseCanadians being taken to their
deportation.
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Loss of Property

• In 1943, the government was given the power to
  sell JapaneseCanadian property including
• Houses
• Cars
• Shops
• Fishing Boats
• The owners of these items received little to none
  of the money.

A Canadian officer meets with two Japanese
Canadians during WWII.
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The Apology

• In 1988 the Canadian government finally
  apologized to the Japanese Canadian population.
• The government agreed to pay 21,000 to each of
  the 1400 people still living who had been
  affected by the policy of internment.
• Canadian citizenship was also granted to people
  who were deported.

Prime Minister Brian Mulroney meetswith Japanese
representatives in apology for Canadas actions
in the 1940s.