"I am an American: a True Story of Japanese Internment"

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Cities emphasized: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle.

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Large populations of Japanese Americans.

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Why were Japanese Americans falsely accused of sabotage?

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Accused to distract from military failures.

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Best sentence to add detail: "At first, the demonstrations of loyalty brought pledges of support from government officials, and Japanese internment seemed unlikely. California congressman Leland Ford said, 'These people are American-born. This is their country.' US Attorney General Francis Biddle declared, 'At no time will the government engage in wholesale condemnation of any alien group.'"

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Even President Roosevelt publicly doubted any likelihood of American-born Japanese spies.

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Significance of destroyed Nisei diaries, letters, and photos?

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Items that could have identified Nisei by their Japanese heritage.

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Changing attitudes of American military leaders:

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Targeted Japanese in the US due to vulnerability after early battle losses.

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Support for targeting Japanese Americans due to early battles lost:

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"Alarmed at the enemy's swift advance through the Pacific, military officials suggested that Japan might try to invade the west coast of America and that maybe the Issei and the Nisei who lived there would aid the invasion."

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Statement about Japanese Americans:

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They continually tried to do whatever they could to prove themselves as loyal Americans.

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Japanese Americans showed support for the US by destroying their Asian heritage along the west coast.

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They destroyed what they possessed of the Asian heritage.

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Definition of sabotage?

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deliberate destruction

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Definition of patriotism?

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national pride