Many Chinese Americans or “Chinamen” were unjustly harassed, prosecuted and even killed for reasons that were unprecedented. Although Chinese immigrants have been an important group that helped the U.S economy become stronger; many were denied entrance into the U.S because of the Exclusion Act of 1882. In 1848, the word of
Following the aftermath of Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese Americans and Japanese people were sent to War Relocation Camps. These camps, surrounded by barbed wire, armed guard towers, with guns facing inwards, felt demeaning to every one of the 100,000 plus located within. Additional orders were given to the guards to shoot anyone who tried to escape. Life in these camps was at best inhospitable. Sheets on clotheslines were used to divide families that slept on cots that were surrounded by the smell of horse urine and dung.
There were explosions, tons of smoke, and low-flying enemy aircrafts. This all had shocked many; Pearl Harbor was officially under attack. The day was a horrific period of time in which Japanese pilots killed many American civilians and soldiers. It has lived on as one of the single most tragic events on United States
Since Japan did the bombing in Pearl Harbor, many Americans believed that Japanese Americans could not be trusted. Japanese fought because there was “A Tremendous Hole” in the Constitution and they would not tolerate being treated as less than a citizen. By the end of the war in Europe, the soldiers in 442nd, consisting most of Japanese Americans, were told by President Truman “you fought for the free nations of the world…you fought not only the enemy, you fought prejudice-and you won” (Takaki 349). Yet discrimination still existed. African Americans found themselves being targeted by hate crimes and violence.
With this amount of casualties projected, a land invasion would have trumped the death toll of D-Day. Also, more civilians and more cities would have been destroyed because of the strict Japanese leadership and stubbornness to surrender, especially when they know that they are in an un-winnable war. Another negative one could claim is that these events lead to the arms race. If the bombs were not dropped, there would have still been the arms race. Urgent use of the bombs portrayed to the world of the bombs potential and prevented future use when stockpiles were much
In the book “The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II” Iris Chang cements her feelings of utter disgust toward the people who committed the atrocities that occurred in the City of Nanking in China during the late 1930’s. Chang begins the book with a long introduction and forward showing the many facts that she later uses to show that the Japanese soldiers were “turned into murdering demons” by the Japanese command at the time (58). Chang couples these facts with many varying first-hand accounts of the actions that took place in and around the city of Nanking. Alongside the accounts she also uses a timeline which described how the events unfolded in order to show how the Japanese cruelty grew as the occupation of the city dragged on. Chang even included accounts from members of her own family to show how wide spread the effects of the holocaust were.
The horrible murders had innumerable variations in the form and scope of the killing. Chinese soldiers were most often lined up in front of already dug mass graves and either open fired on them, used them for bayonet practice, or used them for their own amusement in killing competitions. Innocent men and women were burned alive, children, toddlers and infants were bayoneted, and life was truly Hell on earth. The treatment of Women in Nanking was even worse than that of the men. Women all over were rounded up and stolen as “prostitutes” (sex-slaves) for the Japanese soldiers.
One of the examples for this is the rape of Nanjing. In 1931, the Japanese army attacked china and the Japanese army entered the city without any resistance. In six week, up to 300 000 civilians were killed where many of them were shot or stabbed to death. Some women were forced into prostitution. Because of all these happening, in 1931, when china ask for help but Canada didn’t help.
They were ruthless, they killed thousands of Christians and they also attempted to storm the foreign embassies located in Beijing. Following a 55-day siege, the embassies were relieved by 20,000 Japanese, American, and European troops. After this the Chinese government signed the "Boxer Protocol" which called for the rebellion's leaders to be executed and the payment of financial repairs to the injured countries and this ended the Boxer
In Tacoma, six hundred Chinese residents were chased from their homes and their houses were burned, and in Rock Springs, Wyoming, twenty-eight Chinese men were killed and the remaining men were forced out. Many of those who were now homeless and unemployed ended up in San Francisco in the district known as Chinatown. (Films Media Group, 2003). Under the Exclusion Act, Chinese laborers were issued papers which allowed them to go to China and return to the United States. This changed in 1888 when the Scot Act made those papers invalid.