To create the segregated 442nd RCT included lobbying from significant supporters of the Japanese American community, the sterling training record of the 100th as well as the well-publicized efforts of the The events which eventually convinced the War Department and President had designated the latter "Orange" for war games in the Pacific, anticipating actual confrontation in 1941 by over three decades. Indeed, by the time of the Russo-Japanese War in 1904–05, won by Japan, the U.S. This racism was precipitated by the attack on Pearl Harbor but it had deep antecedents in the nearly half-century of legal, social, and economic policies directed against Asians in general within the United States. The calculated response culminated in the forced removal and unconstitutional incarceration of 120,000 residents of Japanese ancestry, including the complete elimination of communities and individuals from the entire West Coast of the United States. The war heightened American prejudice against German Americans and Italian Americans but the racism directed against Japanese Americans was particularly vicious. And other American bases, the United States entered the war against Japan, Germany, and Italy.
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