Verb - reduce the extent or quantity

The United States felt it was in danger after the sneak attack.  Governments have a tendency to curtail certain freedoms when they feel threatened.

Synonyms: cutback

Antonyms: increase

verb - recognize a distinction

Anyone of Japanese descent was liable to be detained.  The US government did not discriminate between those who were US citizens and those who were not.

synonyms: hated

antonyms: fairness

noun - the practice of spying

Anti-Japanese feeling ran high.  Anyone who looked Asian and who possessed a camera and short-wave radio ws liekly to be suspected of engaging in espionage

synonyms:  spying

antonyms: 

adj - unable to be taken or given away

Yoshiko and Keiko received a rude shock on May 1, 1942.  They discovered that their supposedly inalienable rights could be taken away after all.

synonyms: inviolable

antonyms:  alienable

verb - imprison

After being forcibly removed from their home, the Uchidas were sent to Utah.  There they were imprisoned in a prison camp next to the Sevier Desert.

synonyms: imprison

antonyms: release

noun - treatment to cause 1 to feel shame

Japanese Americans were law-abiding members of their communiites.  They had done nothing to deserve their neighbors' indignity.

synonyms: humiliation

antonyms:  respect

adj - Not marked by careful distinctions; haphazard

Friends turned against friend, neighbors against neighbors.  Japanese Amercians were indiscriminated by the government and the media. 

synonyms - haphazard, aimless

antonyms - planned, definite

adj - Having a very bad reputation; notorious.

adj - Disgraceful; vicious

On December 7, 1941, Japan attacked the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.  President Roosevelt called it "a day that will live in infamy"

synonyms - hateful, monstrous, notorious

antonyms - friendly, gentle, kind

verb - To act or plead on another’s behalf; to try to smooth the differences between two parties.

The Uchida family was lucky because Mr. Uchida had influential friends on the outside.  Thos who had no one to intercede for them were not so lucky.

synonyms - arbitrate, advocate

antonyms - leave alone

verb - To say negative and unfair things about; slander

adj - Evil; showing ill will

The US Government showed it had learned an important lesson.  It is hoped that the government will not ever treat its citizens in such a malign manner again.

synonyms - bad, evil, malignant

antonyms - hiding, helpful, benign

verb - To commit, as a crime or other antisocial act

No one in the Uchida family had ever been in trouble with the law.  Nevertheless the family members were treated as though they had perpetrated a crime.

synonym - carryout, commit

antonyms - leave, stop, fail

adj - Threateningly wild, without restraint or control; widespread

Fears of a Japanese attack on the West Coast diminshed gradually.  As they did so, anti-japanese feeling became less rampant

synonym - excessive, prevalent

antonym - gentle, mild, restrained

noun - A deep, long-held feeling of hatred or bitterness

Japanese Americans were law-abiding members of their communities.  They had done nothing to deserve their neighbors rancor.

synonyms - grudge, hatred

antonyms - friendliness, love

noun - 1. A mending or repair

2. (usually plural) A making up or payment for a wrong or damage done, especially in the case of an international war.

In 1988, the US government admitted its mistake.  It offered an apology, and it agreed to pay reparations to those whom it had injured

synonyms - apology, repair

antonyms - sympathy, penalty, theft

noun - 1. Superficial, scattered knowledge

2.  small amount

Depriving citizens of their liberty without reasonable cause is wrong.  Anyone with just a smattering of the law knows that to be the case.

synonyms - tad, smidgen

antonyms - covered, lots