AAS 033B Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Eminent Domain, Fourteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution, Executive Order 9066
2 Jun 2018
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WWII and Asian Americans - 4/4
The Watershed (Turning point)
● America’s need to change against Global Racism and Aggression (Nazi Germany,
Japan, and Italy)
● America’s need to mobilize all races
● Fair opportunities for all
● Opening up (desegregation) for Asian Americans and other minorities
● Led to the civil right movement in the 1950’s and 1960’s
The Monroe Doctrine and Pearl Harbor Attack
● “Cash and Carry” policy
● The eventual U.S. involvement in the war
○ U.S. investment
○ Racial policy
● Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941
Executive Order 8802 by FDR
● The first affirmative action
● The need for labor in defense industry and the military
● African Americans’ migration from the south
● Chinese Americans’ moving out of Chinatowns
China as an Ally
● Abolishment of Chinese Exclusion Act 1943 (The Magnuson Act)
● National Origin Act (Johnson & Reed Act) questioned
○ Eventually repealed in 1965
● The compromise between FDR and congress
○ Chinese immigration quota, 105
Repealed Anti-Asian American Acts
● Abolishment of Alien Land Act, 1916-1946
● Anti-Miscegenation Act in the 1960’s
New Asian American Immigration and Families
● The War Bride Act, 1945
● Exclusion of Filipinos and Asian Indians, repealed in 1946
● New Asian American families
● The new second generation
Citizenship
● Citizenship to Asian American soldiers
● McCarran-Walter Act, 1952
○ Granted 1st generation Asian American families citizenship
● Nullifying “The Naturalization Act” of 1790 signed by George Washington
Transforming Chinatowns
● Assimilation
● Chinatown crisis
○ Lack of young Chinese laborers
○ Rebirth as a tourist place
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Document Summary
America"s need to change against global racism and aggression (nazi germany, Opening up (desegregation) for asian americans and other minorities. Led to the civil right movement in the 1950"s and 1960"s. The eventual u. s. involvement in the war. Japan"s attack on pearl harbor, december 7, 1941. The need for labor in defense industry and the military. Abolishment of chinese exclusion act 1943 (the magnuson act) National origin act (johnson & reed act) questioned. Exclusion of filipinos and asian indians, repealed in 1946. Granted 1st generation asian american families citizenship. Nullifying the naturalization act of 1790 signed by george washington. Chinatown as a shameful place by the second generation. Chinatown as a heritage, pride, and symbol of chinese culture in recent decades by the third generation. Japan"s bombing pearl harbor, december 7, 1941. The government"s rationale: military necessity, the 5th column .
