Main Points of "Asian Americans and World War II"

Daniels Pages: 302-306


Main Points:

1) Japanese Americans- sent to concentration camps placed in cities that were in "the middle of nowhere"

• U.S fought against totalitarianism and racism in WWII
• On the home front, people were adapting to one of its most feared opponent- concentration camps- against the Japanese Americans
• Japanese were seen as enemy aliens instead of citizens
• Many Japanese faced anti-Japanese sentiment and discrimination
• 120,000 Japanese were sent to these camps-- two-thirds of them were native born citizens 
• In 1988, six years later, Congress-passed- and President Ronald W. Reagan signed a bill containing an apology to the Japanese American people for the injustice done to them and authorized the payment of twenty-thouand dollars  in "redress" to each of the 60,000 survivors who had been in a camp 

2) Chinese Americans- legal position changed as they were shunned off like other immigrant with their naturalization and immigration

• Since Japan and America had a "falling out" from WWII, America became a supporter of China
• This support didn't help the Chinese American in anyway
• In 1943, Congress and the President repelled any and all Chinese exclusion
• This also allowed for the naturalization of Chinese immigrants but limited to the 105 quota slots
• because of the limited Chinese immigrants and un-welcomed Japanese, there was a labor shortage which the government had to make an agreement with Mexico's government for a bracero program- manual labor.