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There was panic and near hysteria after Pearl Harbor. Many people feared a Japanese attack, with troops landing, on the west coast. The Japanese never had any plans to do any such thing, and had only attacked Hawaii to cripple the US Fleet, so the Fleet would be unable to interfere with Japanese conquests on the other side of the Pacific. But this was not understood at the time.
Only Japanese living in the west coast states were sent to camps. This was where the bulk of Japanese-Americans were living though. Any living in the central and eastern states were not interned. Hawaii was full of people of Japanese ancestry, and they were not interned either.
The reason was to prevent spying and sabotage by Japanese-Americans. A publicly announced reason was to protect the Japanese-Americans from attacks by their fellow (Caucasian) citizens. There may have been a few actual spies among the thousands interned. The concerns over sabotage were very large. The Nazis had just taken over Norway with the help of a "Fifth Column" of Norwegian Nazis, who betrayed their own country and helped the German invaders.
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Why were interment camps used here in the us during ww2?
After Pearl Harbor the Japanese Americans were rounded up and put into interment camps. They lost businesses, farms, and homes.
Why did the public opinion on interment camps change?
Americans of Japanese ancestry was no longer questioned.
Did Japanese Americans fight in the world war 2?
No most were locked in interment camps.
What are interment camps?
Internment Camps were camps created by the United States government to house Japanese-Americans during the Second World War. Japanese-Americans were removed from their homes and forced into camps, for the government feared some were spies for the Japanese Empire.
What kind of camps where were Japanese Americans sent to during World War 2?
They were called interment camps. They were crude and pretty spartan in their facilities. Many had health problems as a result.
What are Japanese American interment camps?
Japanese internment camps were meant to house any Japanese Americans whom "posed a threat" to the American Government or people during WWII. Though this sounds innocent, the Americans took total liberty in putting any Japanese they could get there hands on in there.
Why were Japanese Americans banished to interment camps?
its because they were stupid and no one love then let alone liked them and they werent trusted on which side they were on. so thats why they were sent to interment camps. peace poopy sniffers.
Did the Japanese in internment camps keep peace?
The Japanese were peaceful in the interment camps but they suffered tremendously.
Should they have sent Japanese Americans to interment camps?
They should not have sent the Japanese Americans to internment camps because more than 60% of them were regular US. citizens and the US government broke the 4th and the 14th amendment of constitution.
What camps were Japanese-Americans forced into during WW2?
Internment camps
Who built Japanese American internment camp?
Teddy Roosevelt who thought of the interment camps for the Japanese-Americans and he (might) ask some or more builders and few soldiers to build and scout for building the internment camps.
Who built interment camps?
The SS anfd Todt Organization (Engineers) built concentration camps in Europe for Jews The Army Corps of Engineers built internment camps for Japanese Americans in the southwestern US
