1945-65 Flashcards
(50 cards)
quota laws (date & name)
Immigration act of 1924
Johnson-Reed Act
quota laws (def)
2% of the population are allowed in based on the foreign population originating from said country but residing in the USA in the 1890s
times of Americanization
1880s-90s
exclusion act of chinese migrants
1892
registration
Alien Registration Act or Smith Act: 1940
1e generation
Issei
2e generation
Nisei
Munson Report
October 1941
–> not a threat
Executive Order
9066 19th Feb 1942
entity responsible for relocation
War Relocation Authority
Japanese people displaced
100 000
first famous case
Hirabayashi 1943
second famous case
Korematsu 1944
H case according to one of the justices
“the very brink of constitutional power”
K case according to justices
violation of the Constitution
falling into “the ugly abyss of racism”
Four Freedoms
speech made by Roosevelt in Jan 41
of speech, of worship, from want and from fear
release of the Japanese
46
funds appointed to settle Japanese property claims
1948
Japanese American Claims Act
36M
quote about the wrong done to Japanese
Ford, 1966
“We know what we should have known then; not only was the evacuation wrong but Japanese Americans were and are loyal Americans.”
conclusion of the commission appointed to study the case of Japanese evacuation
1983 “not justified by military necessity” but by “race prejudice, war hysteria and failure of political leadership”
act establishing the payment of survivors
Civil Liberties Act of 1988
20 000 each
Italian act
Wartime Violation of Italian American Civil Liberties Act
2000
end of Italian internment
october 42
authority in charge of immigration
Immigration and Naturalization Service (created in the 30s)
