Lesson Plan Who Defines Loyalty?: Japanese Americans During World War II
- Grade Level 9th-12th Grade
- Time Period 1930 - 1949
Introduction
Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, 120,000 Japanese Americans and 881 Aleuts were incarcerated in camps for over three years during WWII. Nonetheless Japanese Americans and Native Americans had shown their loyalty to the United States in various ways. The no-no boys who responded ‘no’ to a loyalty questionnaire, the ones who served in the U.S. military, the legal challengers who tried to uphold the U.S. Constitution, and those who fought for redress and repatriation are all loyal Americans. They fought for democracy, the rule of law, and to defend their country, America. They are all loyal Americans.
Essential Questions
California Common Core Standards Addressed
National Standards for Civics and Government
U.S. History Grades 5-12 4.2C.3
Explain how immigration intensified ethnic and cultural conflict and complicated the forging of a national identity.
U.S. History Grades 5-12 4.2C.4
Assess the ways immigrants adapted to life in the United States and to the hostility sometimes directed at them by the nativist movement and the Know Nothing party. [Assess the importance of the individual in history