New material on landfills, Japanese internment camps, landscapes, and military properties has been added, along with special case studies on 17th and 18thcentury historical sites and additional chapters on heritage tourism, traditional cultural places, and shipwrecks....
Japanese American internment: removalRemoval of Japanese Americans from Los Angeles to internment camps, 1942. Executive Order 9066, (February 19, 1942),executive orderissued by U.S. Pres.Franklin D. Roosevelt, which granted the secretary ofwarand his commanders the power “to prescribe military ...
Here, the Japanese captured her and sent her to Santo Tomas Internment Camp in Manila, a prisoner-of-war camp. While imprisoned, she smuggled surgical equipment into the camp and assisted with hundreds of operations and 13 births. She often went hungry so that she could use her food rations...
It was repealed in 1943 with the passage of the Magnuson Act, which permitted a quota of 105 Chinese immigrants annually. Japanese American internment: removalRemoval of Japanese Americans from Los Angeles to internment camps, 1942.(more) Arguably the most egregious consequence of nativist ideology...
Bataan Death March, march in the Philippines of some 66 miles that 76,000 prisoners of war were forced by the Japanese military to endure in April 1942, during the early stages of World War II. Learn more about the lead-up to the march, details of it, an