On December 7, 1941, The United States entered World War II after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. After the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor it struct fear within the nation. Mass hysteria began to flourish as neighbors turned on neighbors. Many Americans let the fear get the best of them and they blamed all Japanese. Japanese internment camps were established to relocate all Japanese-Americans to concentration camps in the interior of the United States. The provided image is one of many evacuation orders that were posted in Japanese-American communities. These instructions were on how to comply with executive orders. They were forced to sell their homes, their stores and almost all of their assets.
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Many signs like the one above were posted on stores and restaurant windows. During the 1950's, the McCarren Walter Act only further segregated the nation as it made it more acceptable to discriminate those of hispanic dissent. The act allowed the government to deport immigrants or naturalized citizens engaged in subversive activities. It also allowed the barring of suspected subversives from entering the country. Growing nativism led many white Americans to assume all hispanics were illegal immigrants. This division within the nation caused competition to increase in the workplace. Americans accused hispanics of being illegal immigrants if they felt threatened by their presence within the workplace.
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