Discuss the U.S. government-produced propaganda film explaining the internment of Japanese American citizens during World War II.

QUESTION SET 1
Discuss the U.S. government-produced propaganda film explaining the internment of Japanese American citizens during World War II. United States Office of War Information (1943), approx. 10 min.

Q1.1. What were some of the reasons for incarceration offered in the newsreel?
Q1.2. How does the newsreel portray incarceration Is it portrayed as positive or negative?
Q1.3. Whom do you believe was the target audience for this newsreel?

**Min. 150 words total, numbering your answers to correspond to the questions asked. You do not have to cite for this question set, but do need to draw on examples from the newsreel that support your answers.

QUESTION SET 2
Read Document B (see the file attached) : The Munson Report and Document C: The Crisis on the internment of Japanese-American citizens during World War II (linked in the Japanese Internment Documents from this unit’s Primary Sources submodule). Answer the following questions:

Q2.1. Using Document B: Describe this document. What does it report about the threat of Japanese-Americans? Why is the date of the Munson report important?
Q2.2. Using Document C: Describe this document. Why, according to The Crisis article, were the Japanese Americans interned? Is this a reasonable or valid claim, do you think?

**Min. 150 words total, numbering both answers to correspond to the questions asked, quoting and citing from the texts that support your answers.

QUESTION SET 3
Read Document D (see the file attached) : The Korematsu Supreme Court Ruling and Document E: Personal Justice Denied on the internment of Japanese-American citizens during World War II (linked in the Japanese Internment Documents from this unit’s Primary Sources submodule). Answer the following questions:

Q3.1. Using Document D: On what basis did the Supreme Court ruling legitimize the compulsory exclusion of minority communities? What does this say about prevailing attitudes towards non-Whites in America at the time?
Q3.2. Using Document E: According to the special commission established by the U.S. Congress nearly 40 years later, what were the underlying social-historical causes that led to the decision to intern Japanese Americans during WWII?

** Min. 150 words total, numbering both answers to correspond to the questions asked, quoting and citing from the texts that support your answers.

** Citation guide
Stylistically, MLA in-line citations can look like the following example. Note that many of the primary-source docs we’ll use do not have identifiable authors or even volume/book titles, and often times do not even have page numbers. In that case, just use the title of the document, as done here:

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For these document, you can simply cite (Document B), (Document C), (Document E), or (Document F) as the in-line citation. Alternatively, you can use the name of the author or article title if you can easily identify them.

Remember that the citation goes at the end of the sentence, even if the quoted text is in the middle of the sentence; the citation goes inside the period but outside the “quotes”; there are not additional commas or omitted or added spaces between the quotes, parentheses, etc. Do not include any other superfluous punctuation or information such as “pg.” Please just make your citations look exactly like the one above. Finally, note that the quotes are integrated into the student’s own response and sentences, as support for the answer the answer is not just a stand-alone, fully quoted sentence from the book. Rather, it is a student’s own sentence, drawing on what this person read and analyzed from the chapter.

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