Imagine being forcibly relocated from your home, your school or your family to a bleak prison surrounded by barbed wire and armed guards. This was not a nightmare from Nazi Germany but an American injustice endured by nearly 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry living in the United States following the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. Thousands of innocent Japanese Americans were forced into isolated internment camps because of racial prejudice and wartime hysteria. Remarkably, they created courageous communities where patriotism prospered, loyalty to the U.S. did not falter, and they played baseball to sustain their pride and morale.

This website created by the University of Utah contains an interactive timeline of Downwinders of Utah. This timeline includes several news articles and memos sent out by the Atomic Energy Commission about the nuclear testing occurring in the Nevada Desert. This timeline goes from the time of WWII until 2015.

This website created by the University of Utah contains several oral histories of those who were "Downwinders". Each history is between 3 and 20 minutes long and talk about poeple's lives prior, during, and after the nuclear testing.

This youtube video provided from FDR Library gives an overview Executive Order 9066

Students will learn how various environmental and cultural changes impacted the treatment of Japanese Americans in Utah.so

This biographical sketch is about WWI nurse Maud Fitch who worked on the front lines during WWI.

A short eight-minute video that discusses Navajo code talkers. This goes into details about how the langauge was taught and utilized during WWII.

This youtube video explains what life was like in Salt Lake City during the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic.

This pdf consists of three key questions about Japanese Internment: why FDR issued Executive Order 9066, what the executive order did, and didn't people oppose. This comes from the FDR Library and helps summarize the answers to these questions. This can be used as supplemental material or for students to read and understand more.

This YouTube video contains video footage of the Topaz Japanese Internment Camp during WWII. This will help teachers and students learn and identify what life was like for Japanese Americans incarcerated in Topaz.

This article is about a WWI nurse Maud Fitch, from Utah, who contributed much to the war effort. It provides the opportunity to learn about the sacrifices and contributions to the war effort that women and other minorities made.