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- Japanese Americans
- Women
- African Americans
- After the attack on Pearl Harbor people thought that the Japanese Americans had to do with the attack. Roosevelt issued an executive order to exclude threats. In March the military used this executive order to launch a mass evacuation of people of Japanese ancestry from the Pacific Coast. Evacuees had only a few weeks to sell their homes and possessions.
- Jewish Americans
- Most men went to war which meant unemployed men and women did all the labor jobs. At the beginning women would do the traditional jobs like service and sales work. The demand for jobs started getting higher so they had to start working in factories or do mechanical work.
- Mexican Americans
- When the war broke out many African American men enlisted into the war. Most of them were faced with hardships, they were segregated training camps, they ate in separate mess halls from white troops, and slept in separate barracks from them. At the beginning of the war the air force and marines refused to let any colored people into those branches. The navy only let limited number of people.
- Pearl Harbor
- Save my family
- The Jewish people knew what was going on in Europe and they felt useless because they are in America and their family members were at home dying. They started boycotting German products and raised money for refugee camps. In July 1942, around 20,000 people gathered at Madison Square Garden in New York City to protest Nazi brutality. This helped get the message across but didn't stop it.
- Free the Jews
- Just like the African Americans the Mexican Americans had just as much discrimination. When the war started they enlisted in the war because they wanted to show their loyalty. Many of them left their farms and family behind to go fight.
- Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941 that set off a chain of events for the U.S. involvement in World War II. Also it heightened the radical tensions with the Japanese Americans in the U.S.
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