Desert Exile: Uprooting Of Japanese Americans

Uprooting of Japanese Americans a Japanese American unfurled this advertisement the day after the Pearl Harbor attack. This Dorothea Lange image was taken in March 1942, just former to the man's internment. The strike on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 directed some to suppose the Japanese were organizing a full-scale strike on the West Coast of the United States. Japan's fast infantry conquest of a large piece of Asia and the Pacific between 1936 and 1942 made their infantry forces appear unstoppable to some Americans. Knowing that "public attitude would not support the main ...