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• Unemployment reduced to almost 1 percent.
• Women typically got better jobs than they had
  before.
• The marriage rate AND the divorce rate climbed.
• The "GI Bill of Rights" gave soldiers new
  educational opportunities.
• The economic position of African-American workers
  improved.
• Japanese Americans fought with distinction and
  earned many commendations.

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• Many people moved to the South.
• More than half of the workers in the economy were
  women.
• In the military, combat units were racially
  integrated.
• In the case of Korematsu v. U.S., the Supreme
  Court ruled that putting Japanese-Americans in
  internment camps was unconstitutional.

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Japanese Relocation

• Racism before Pearl Harbor
• Nativism
• Executive Order 9066
• Feb 19, 1942
• 10 internment camps
• 120,000 Japanese American relocated
• 2/3 of internees were American citizens
• War Relocation Authority (WRA)

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10 Internment Camps
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Japanese American experiences

• Internment Camps
• Barren lands, few belongings
• Families sometimes split up
• Japanese Americans in military
• 442nd infantry combat teamwell decorated
• Lost 2 billion in property and possessions
• Challenges to internment
• Korematsu case (1944)internment is
  constitutional
• 1988reparations paid to surviving internees
  (20,000 each)

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Japanese Internment

• Notification, Relocation, Internment Photos

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Notification
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Relocation
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Internment Camps
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