The Issei and the Nisei

★ In the early 1940s more than 100.000 people of Japanese descent lived in the United States.

★ These Japanese Americans were either "Issei" i.e those born in Japan or "Nisei " i .e American-born Japanese.

★ After the attack on Pearl Harbor white Americans began to see every Japanese American as a potential spy or saboteur.Both Issei and Nisei were treated badly.

★ In March 1942, the government sent soldiers to take them from their homes to be interned in prison camps called " relocation centers ".

★ Most of the internment camps were in remote , desert areas of the country.Over 100.000 Japanese American men, women & children were kept there for the rest of the war.

★ In later years the American Civil Liberties Union called their internment " the worst single violation of the civil rights of American citizens in our history ."

★ The internment of the Issei and the Nisei was more than unjust. Thousands of Nisei fought bravely in the American army.

★ And not one Japanese American was convicted of an act of disloyalty to the United States during the whole of the war .

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★ The earliest know civilizations erupted in "Mesopotamia" as it has many rivers providing excellent environment for human interests.

★ It was here that people invented & learnt to use the first machine "A Wheel" about 10,000-4,000 B.C.


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The Great Depression was a period of worldwide economic depression that lasted from 1929 until approximately 1939.

★ This was the date when the stock market fell dramatically 12.8%.

┗▶ What caused the Great Depression?

★ European governments were in debt from WWI.

★ European citizens couldn’t buy American products because they were still trying to recover and rebuild from WWI.
★ U.S. farmers grew more food than they could sell.

★ Also, competition from European farmers drove down the price of farm goods.
★ By the end of the middle of the1920’s U.S. farmers were already in a depression.

★ Many Americans bought goods on credit, but they couldn’t afford to pay the bills for the things they had bought.
★ When the economy slowed down and people lost their jobs they defaulted on their loans causing the economy to slow down.

★ During the Roaring 20’s the U.S. raised tariffs to keep foreign goods them out of U.S. markets.Americans couldn’t afford to buy foreign goods.Some people believe that U.S. tariff laws helped to create a depression outside the U.S.

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★ Aztecs are people who dominated Mexico up to Spanish colonial period in the 15th century.

★ The city-capital of the Aztec people was Tenochtitlan, the site of present-day Mexico City.

★ They spoke Nahuatl, a language that is still spoken today.

★ Daily worship was determined by a calendar consisted of 260 days, divided into 20 weeks of 13 days.

★ Each hour, day and week was ruled by a certain god.

★ The Aztec empire was invaded by Hernando Cortez in 1519.

★ In 1521, Spaniards tore down the buildings, destroying the city of Tenochtitlan.

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