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The Impact of WWII Propaganda on Japanese Americans and U.S. Military Strategy in the Pacific

This analysis explores the intertwining of WWII propaganda against Japanese Americans and the military strategies employed in the Pacific. In the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, over 110,000 Japanese Americans, primarily Nisei, were forcibly relocated to internment camps, losing homes, jobs, and rights. This was fueled by pervasive hatred and mistrust. Concurrently, military strategies such as island hopping led to significant battles at Midway, Guadalcanal, and Iwo Jima, culminating in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and Japan's eventual surrender.

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The Impact of WWII Propaganda on Japanese Americans and U.S. Military Strategy in the Pacific

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  1. WWII in thePACIFIC

  2. AT HOME: Propaganda & Pearl Harbor = Hatred for Japanese Thought: Japanese “diabolically” clever.

  3. OUR HATRED OF THE JAPANESE…

  4. So what does America do?... Hawaii & West coast Japanese-Americans “evacuated” War Relocation Authority (WRA) • 110,000 Niseiput into camps • Taken from homes & jobs • Lost all property & rights • Barbed wire, communal bathing, dirty, riots, Psychotic episodes

  5. Can you tell which is a Japanese Relocation Camp?

  6. Ronald Regan in 1988 signed congressional legislation “apologizing” $20,000 to each surviving Japanese American who had been in the camps

  7. OUR STRATEGY IN THE PACIFIC… “Island Hopping”

  8. We Start from Hawaii….

  9. June ‘42MIDWAY US surprises Japan! Gone: 4 Jap. A.C. carriers 322 Jap. planes

  10. Aug ’42GUADALCANAL 6 months long 1st land invasion a 24hr war now Kamikaze's & psychological warfare Traps, Snipers, Blockhouses 24,000 Jap. die, 1,200 US die

  11. FDR Dies June ‘45 Harry S. Truman Takes Over… He was FDR’s VP

  12. ‘45 IWO JIMA Rarely saw a Japanese soldier Jap = Below 16 miles of tunnels Strategy = “No Japan. survivors” Am = Above 36 days 22,000 Jap. Die 25,000 Americans 1-3 wounded/dead US gets a base

  13. More soldiers won Medals of Honor at Iwo Jima than in any other battle in US History.

  14. June ’45OKINAWA Japanese Lie US wins! Japan can’t protect Itself anymore!

  15. M.G.I.O

  16. JAPAN Aug ‘45Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima & Nagasaki Japan Surrenders Sept. ’45 VJ-DAY

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