Alex's APUSH Blog

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, there was much anti-Japanese sentiment from Americans. FDR established Executive Order 9066 to address the wariness the American people felt about the Japanese. Americans were fearful of spies and believed Japanese people were planning more vicious attacks on American soil. The act set up internment camps for Japanese families. Many families were taken from their homes and place into these internment camps named relocation camps, losing their land and possessions. Around 120,000 people were placed in these camps. People of other ethnicities were also detained in these camps as the American people did not want anyone against the war. Similarities can be drawn between the internment camps and the relocation of Native Americans by Andrew Jackson. Like the Japanese the Native Americans were removed from their lands and relocated to new areas that Americans didn't want. An infamous example of this was the Trail of Tears. 

FDR first speaks of December 7 th , 1941, “the date which will live in infamy,”. P Japan and the US had been in good relation, all was well but the Japanese secretly planned the attack on Pearl Harbor. T he Japanese were also engaging on the attack of the Pacific and were taking land on that front. United States must defend themselves and must win through absolute victory so that the American people would not be threatened by the Japanese claimed FDR. He ends his speech by asking Congress to declare war on Japan, entering World War 2. Jeanette Rankin was the singular vote that wasn't all for the war. This can be compared to Wilsons Declaration of War speech. As the President during World War I he asked Congress as FDR did to declare war. It was Wilsons fight for the protection of democracy.

        At the time Frank B Kellogg was the secretary of state and Aristade Briand was the French minister of foreign affairs. They are attributed with the formation of the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact of 1928, also known as the Pact of Paris, the location it was signed. Initially 15 nations signed the pact, 47 nations then followed. The pact however was impossible to enforce because you had to go to war which was against the treaty, making it ineffective. The Mukden Incident was the first test of the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact. The Japanese invaded Manchuria and while Japan had signed the treaty, no one enforced it. This can be compared to the United Nations because both were attempts at world peace. However the United Nations stands solid while the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact failed.

      FDR delivered his first inaugural address on March 4th, 1933. This would be the first of four total addresses. Possibly FDR's most famous quote was delivered in this address, "...the only thing we have to fear is fear itself...". This quote is used constantly and remains true to present day. FDR assures the people that his leadership can lead them out of these hard times. He also makes a call for action from all, "hand in hand", unified.  . For there must be more than a change in ethics. He also addresses the ways he will attack these problems. He intends to set up programs to fix the issues at hand. World War II would ultimately be the factor that got us out of the Great Depression. While FDR's programs did help the economy, the wartime production of WWII was the true reason we were able to get out of the Great Depression.