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How Pearl Harbor Created a Climate of Fear
CNN ^ | Wed December 7, 2016 | Daniel Greene

Posted on 12/07/2016 3:20:32 PM PST by nickcarraway

Seventy-five years ago today, hundreds of Japanese bombers attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor. America's shock, and its grief for the more than 2,000 US military dead on this date of "infamy" led to overwhelming unity of purpose as we entered a world war.

Yet America's unity was matched by its profound fears about national security in the days after Pearl Harbor. Well before December 7, 1941, Americans believed that enemy spies and saboteurs lived among us. Some did, though not nearly as many as we imagined. In 1940, the FBI reportedly received 3,000 complaints or tips every day regarding acts against America's national defense.

Amid this climate of fear, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover ordered the Immigration and Naturalization Service to detain and question thousands suspected of having ties to America's enemies. Many Germans and Italians were arrested in the days after Pearl Harbor, but the American people's fear of "persons of Japanese ancestry" hardened the most.

In the months after the attack, the US government acted decisively on these fears, physically relocating more than 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry, more than two-thirds of whom were American citizens, to 10 inland camps across Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming. Many more temporary detention centers and assembly centers dotted the American landscape in 1942.

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TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: pearlharbor; worldwarii
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To: MeganC
Thank You Sweetest Megan!

HUGS!!!

41 posted on 12/08/2016 10:34:10 AM PST by KC_Lion ("I'm a believer that you don't need a title, and you don't need an office to make a difference"~S.P.)
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To: MeganC; KC_Lion

Yep! I goofed.


42 posted on 12/08/2016 7:37:32 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: MeganC

You’re right “Martial” and not “Marshal”... Unless Marshal Dillon was enforcing it.


43 posted on 12/08/2016 7:54:01 PM PST by drpix
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To: KC_Lion

Always, Tom!


44 posted on 12/09/2016 8:58:09 AM PST by MeganC (Hate crime: The heinous act of disagreeing with a liberal.)
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