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1. TRUE • Unemployment reduced to almost 1 percent. • Women typically got better jobs than they had before. • The marriage rate AND the divorce rate climbed. • The "GI Bill of Rights" gave soldiers new educational opportunities. • The economic position of African-American workers improved. • Japanese Americans fought with distinction and earned many commendations.

2. FALSE • Many people moved to the South. • More than half of the workers in the economy were women. • In the military, combat units were racially integrated. • In the case of Korematsu v. U.S., the Supreme Court ruled that putting Japanese-Americans in internment camps was unconstitutional.

3. Japanese “Relocation” • Racism before Pearl Harbor • Nativism • Executive Order 9066 • Feb 19, 1942 • 10 internment camps • 120,000 Japanese American relocated • 2/3 of internees were American citizens • War Relocation Authority (WRA)

4. 10 Internment Camps

5. Japanese American experiences • Internment Camps • Barren lands, few belongings • Families sometimes split up • Japanese Americans in military • 442nd infantry combat team—well decorated • Lost $2 billion in property and possessions • Challenges to internment • Korematsu case (1944)—internment is constitutional • 1988—reparations paid to surviving internees ($20,000 each)

6. Japanese Internment: Notification, Relocation, & Internment Photos

7. Notification

12. Relocation

15. Internment Camps