Japanese internment
by
TaylorSpeegle
Last updated 6 years ago
Discipline:
Social Studies Subject:
World War II
Grade:
11


-Overcrowded-No plumbing-Long lines for food and bathroom use-Only allowed to bring a few possessions from home-Lived in barracks, small room cells with entire families living in one room-Often families got separated and put in different camps-Barbed wire perimeters-U.S. military guarded the perimeter-Attempted to mimic Japanese way of life, giving them newspapers, schools, medical care, and some interns did work for the government-Small portions of food lacking nutrients-2/3 of the campers were American citizens, 1/2 were children
The Beginning
-After almost 2 years after the signing of the Executive Order 9066, President Franklin D. Roosevelt rescinded the order in 1944. -The last internment camp was closed in 1945.-Interns could leave the concentration camps if they enlisted in the U.S. Army. Only 1,200 interns took the opportunity.-Over 5,000 renounced their citizenship after released from the camps-Only 10 people convicted of being Japanese spies, none were full Japanese-US Congress gave $20,000 to each of the 60,000 survivors-Civil Liberties Act of 1988 that acknowledged that a "grave injustice was done."
-February 19th, 1942 Roosevelt signed the Executive Order 9066 because he saw the Japanese in America as a threat fearing that they were spying for Japan-The order rounded up 120,000 Americans of Japanese heritage and put them into one of the 10 internment camps- The camps were in California, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Wyoming, Colorado, and Arkansas-The order was fueled by farmers who competed against Japanese laborors, politicians who sided with anti-Japanese programs, and the public who was upset over by the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor
Aftermath
Citations
"Japanese Relocation Centers." Infoplease. Infoplease, n.d. Web. 05 June 2014.
Conditions
Daily Life in Japanese Internment Camp
Japanese Americans
Japanese Internment Camps
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