Japanese torpedo bombers flew just 50 feet above the water as they fired at the U.S. ships in the harbor, while other planes strafed the decks with bullets and dropped bombs. A sailor stands among wrecked airplanes at Ford Island Naval Air Station as he watches the explosion of the USS ...
Fourteen teens whose lives are turned upside down when over 100,000 people of Japanese ancestry are removed from their homes and forced into desolate incarceration camps. In a world that seems determined to hate them, these young Nisei must rally together as racism and injustice threaten to pull...
Our Summary ofCitizen 13660by Mine Okubo Mine Okubo's book 'Citizen 13660' represents a personal account of life in a Japanese-American internment camp. In the book, Okubo describes her experiences in several camps, beginning with her stay in temporary barracks and transition to permanent quarters...
The street signs are another symbolic indicator of how far away the camp is from home. The internment camp is as real of a home as the sign that reads “Oak Street” is a real tree. The girl’s response sounds ominous, even if it’s intended as sarcastic, and indicates the total ali...
Chinese Civil War and Second Sino-Japanese War The CCP continued supporting the Wuhan KMT government, but on 15 July 1927 the Wuhan government expelled all communists from the KMT. The CCP reacted by founding theWorkers' and Peasants' Red Army of China, better known as the "Red Army", to...