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The US, more specifically Hawaii, was attacked by naval and air forces of the empire of Japan. The Japanese thought the US would attack them, so they decided to knock the US out before they could attack Japan.
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This designated certain areas as war zones from which anyone might be removed for any reason
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An organization that sought to apply non-violent protests as a means of fighting segregation
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Japanese troops forced the sick and malnourished American and Filipino POWs to march 55 miles up the Bataan Peninsula.
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FDR wanted to America to retaliate against Japan. Military leaders devised a plan for a nighttime bombing raid from the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Hornet, led by Colonel James Doolittle.
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Mobs of off-duty soldiers roamed through the Mexican sections of Los Angeles, attacking "zooters". Once the fighting ended, police arrested the victims, not the attackers.
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In Detroit, Michigan, conflict erupted over the construction of housing for black workers drawn north to defense plants. Finally, some 100,000 whites and blacks broke into scattered fights in the park
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In 1941, Congresswoman Edith Nourse Rogers introduced a bill to establish a Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, which became the WAC in 1943.
