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Timeline:  U.S. History -- World War II (1941-1945)

Research Questions:

• How was internment in Hawaii during WW II different than the mainland US?

• During WW II, did the US balance the rights of individual citizens with the common good?

Main Subjects:

INVOLUNTARY relocation
CONCENTRATION camps
POLITICAL prisoners
JAPANESE Americans -- Evacuation & relocation, 1942-1945
WORLD War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Hawaii

World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Hawaii

Related Subjects:
PEARL Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941
WORLD War, 1939-1945
WORLD War, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans
World War, 1939-1945 -- Hawaii -- Prisoners and prisons

JAPANESE Americans -- History
STRIKES & lockouts -- Sugarcane industry -- Hawaii
CIVIL rights
RACE relations

JAPANESE Americans
HAWAII -- History -- 1900-1959
EMIGRATION & immigration law -- United States
LEGISLATIVE bills

EXECUTIVE orders
ROSEVELT, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
UNITED States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary

HISTORIC sites -- Conservation & restoration
MANZANAR War Relocation Center
SIERRA Nevada (Calif. & Nev.)

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Wildcards:  

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