1. War and Peace
Mortoza Mohammadi

2.  Seized as an act of war in 1846, governed by the
military until 1850, California remained closely
connected to the military through the rest of the
nineteenth century.
 In 1914 the Navy established its Pacific Fleet,
supported by growing naval presence in San Diego.
 The Second World War formally began on September
1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland.
 The attack on Pearl Harbor on the morning of
December 7, 1941, took all the force from the
America First movement, already reeling from the
anti-Semitic direction it had taken in certain speeches
by former Californian Charles Lindbergh.
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3.  The attack on Pearl Harbor threw California,
indeed the entire Pacific Coast, into a panic.
The Japanese had hit U.S. soil.
 Ever since 1900s, a sector of California had
been at war with the state’s Japanese
immigrants.
 The White California movement was gaining
strength, and in 1913 the legislature passed
the Alien Land Act prohibiting Japanese
immigrants from owning land in the state.
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