These events and the events to follow were a result of three different types of Californians. There were the lower class labor workers only wanting decent pay, businesses that wanted to pay less for labor and the government that rejected any form of communism because it was the businesses that helped to keep the economy healthy in a time of desperation. The ports of California were not only used for cargo ships, they were and still have strong military presence. In 1914, the Navy formed its Pacific Fleet in San Diego. By the 1920s, San Diego had become home to major the naval and military bases. The army took home to a series of forts in the San Francisco Bay Area. Los Angeles had become a port for military ship repair. The attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 shook up the United States, but it was the following year that California’s fear grew. On February 23, 1942, the Japanese navy submarine fired shots at oil tanks located in Elwood off the coast of Santa Barbara. In addition, two cargo ships were sunk. California had already been experiencing conflict with Japanese immigrants. …show more content…
Our growing population, economic dependency on agriculture and dry rain seasons makes has set California up for a multitude of problems. Yet, the land of California never really had an abundance of water. The film “Mulholland’s Dream”, a series of The Cadillac Desert, describes vision and work of Water Department chief William Mulholland as he constructed an aqueduct that moved water from the Owens River, 230 miles north of Los Angeles, across the Mojave Desert to Los Angeles. His vision came to life in 1923 after his agents secretly purchased water rights to the Owens. He had always tried to advocated water conservation, but the growth of L.A. made this impossible. The Los Angeles Aqueduct System more than adequately supplied water to the booming city, but Mulholland still opposed additions to the