Pearl Harbor and the Internment of Japanese: ABE Level

Last updated over 6 years ago

19 questions

Pearl Harbor and the Internment of Japanese: ABE Level

Last updated over 6 years ago

19 questions

Read the article about Pearl Harbor. Answer questions that follow.

Review timeline and answer questions that follow.

What year was Japanese immigration ended?

What year did Japan bomb the U.S.?

What year did Roosevelt authorize military authorities to exclude civilians from any area without a trial or hearing?

What year was an apology and reparations finally made to the Japanese Americans?

If you have headphones or earbuds, go ahead and watch this clip on your own. Otherwise, wait til we watch it as a class. Answer questions 14-16 as you watch the newsreal from 1943.

Pearl Harbor and the Internment of Japanese: ABE Level

Pearl Harbor and the Internment of Japanese: ABE Level

What year was Japanese immigration ended?

What year did Japan bomb the U.S.?

What year did Roosevelt authorize military authorities to exclude civilians from any area without a trial or hearing?

What year was an apology and reparations finally made to the Japanese Americans?

What reasons did the newsreel give for the internment? Can you identify evidence that supported their reasons?

Why do YOU think the Japanese Americans were interned during World War II?

Who do you think the audience was for this newsreel? In other words, who did the government want to see this newsreel?

If you were alive and an American citizen when the attack on Pearl Harbor occurred, what would your reaction be?

Would you want the USSA to declare war on Japan?

Would you feel any different about Japanese Americans?

What year was Japanese immigration ended?

What year did Japan bomb the U.S.?

What year did Roosevelt authorize military authorities to exclude civilians from any area without a trial or hearing?

What year was an apology and reparations finally made to the Japanese Americans?

What reasons did the newsreel give for the internment? Can you identify evidence that supported their reasons?

Why do YOU think the Japanese Americans were interned during World War II?

Who do you think the audience was for this newsreel? In other words, who did the government want to see this newsreel?

If you were alive and an American citizen when the attack on Pearl Harbor occurred, what would your reaction be?

Would you want the USSA to declare war on Japan?

Would you feel any different about Japanese Americans?