Jack's AP American Blog

On February 19th, 1942, FDR proposed executive order 9066, the order that gave the Secretary of War the ability to create designated areas for specific people to stay during wartime that could pose a threat to the US military. In WWII these areas became known as internment camps, and the people put in them were Japanese-American citizens. This allowed for the rampant mistreatment of these people with cramped living conditions and improper education. While FDR did say these areas were to be provided adequate food, shelter, and transportation, the word "adequate" is very subjective, and allowed for very poor conditions. One example of this is the story "Home was a Horse Stall", where a young girl, Sox, and her family were forced to live in a horse stall and had very little rights and no access to programs many citizens would such as a good education. I, personally, think this is a horribly executed order. While it was FDR's intention to avoid the influence of spie...

On December 7th 1941 the Japanese Empire attacked Hawaii in a premeditated attack that killed many Americans and greatly damaged our navy. That same day they attacked Hong Kong, Guam, Wake, the Philippines, Malaya, and Wake. They ran a military campaign through all of the pacific after feigning peace with the US for weeks. The day after President Wilson addressed congress and requested to declare war on the Japanese. He even went so far as to say that the Japanese Empire and the US were already in a state of war since they had attacked our territories in the Pacific. This speech also served as a motivator that, while damaged, we could still win this war. He key quote regarding himself and the American people was "we will win through to absolute victory". And, evidently this was true as we did go on to win the war. His speech motivated the congress men and women so much so that it inspired a near unanimous vote to follow public opinion and enter the war. The one vote against t...

Executive order 9066 was essentially a racist program that excluded Japanese Americans from everyday life in America due to the actions of their former nation. They were banned from the west coast and forced into internment camps where they essentially lived under oppressive, racist marshal law. This was especially painful for first generation immigrants as they had a personal connection with both nations. Many of them did not want to see their two home nations fighting, and held some allegiance to both, but most were more prone to defending the United States.This was also hard on Japanese children, as they were ripped away from their friends, lives, and schools and taken to internment camps. One example of this is Sox, and her difficult upbringing during this time. She is taken away from her home and placed in a new one. That home is a horse stall. This stall was in a small, crowded internment camp which Sox was forced to grow up in. Her experience illustrates how poorly the Japanese ...

His speech mainly functions to reassure the American people that things will be okay and not to worry. Despite the hard times he believes things will be okay because he has a plan to fix things. This plan would eventually be called his New Deal. He tells the people that "the only thing they have to fear, is fear itself". This means they no longer need to worry about the banks crashing, the rampant poverty, or even the global economic depression. He believed that the nation and its people would endure and utilize the programs and jobs that he would provide. After he tries to reassure them he does bring up the problems plaguing the nation during this depression. However, he feels that many of these problems are overblown. He mentions that people still have nature. They still have more than the generation that came before them. The businessmen who cheated them are losing money and power in the marketplace. He feels that while the situation is not great, it is salvageable. His ma...

The Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact, otherwise known as the Pact of Paris for the city in which it was signed, was a pact outlawing war for acts other than self defense. It was originally signed by 15 nations, and 47 more quickly followed suit. This meant that war was outlawed between the 62 largest nations in the world at the time. This meant that if all those nations held their word another world war would be nearly impossible. However, not all these nations held their word. This was evident in the Mukden Incident of 1931. Japan had been hit hard by the world's economic depression, and they felt that by imperializing they would have access to larger markets and more resources than their island could provide. This began by overtaking Manchuria in the Mukden incident. Once they began this military expansionism many nations were afraid to take action in case they would be provoking war that was not an action of self defense. This highlighted the fact that the only way to enforce this trea...