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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.
What were the most flagrant examples of of intolerance experienced on the home front during World War 2?
The interment of hundreds of Japanese-Americans--
When has the government almost been abusive to Americans?
One good example - maybe the best example - was the interment of thousands of loyal, tax paying Japanese-Americans during World War II.
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.
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 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.
Was the US justified in sending Japanese nationals and Japanese-Americans to interment camps during World War 2?
Gee whiz, we hope that didn't happen!"Interment" means burial.You must mean "internment" camps.Well, the government was paranoid back then, plus back then we didn't know better. Plus, all of the Axis nations that we were at war with sent in spies, and the Japanese were pretty crazy back then, so we didn't know what to expect.
Why were thousands of Japanese Americans interned in the relocation camps?
After the event of Pearl Harbor, Americans felt threatened by the Japanese-Americans. The Americans thought the Japanese-Americans on the East coast had contact with their kind in Japan and that they should cut that conact. They immedietly started moving all Japanese-Americans to interment camps all over, but left them the choice of either going to the camps, or going to Japan. Not many moved back to Japan, feeling defient and angry. The Japanese-Americans lived in their camp for under ten years, and then where allowed to leave.
How are the Japanese and Jewish internment different?
It is not , It is segregation due to race , but the media has an effect on how things come out to people. What happened to Americans of Japanese descent in the USA during the war was a scandal. However the Japanese were not earmarked for starving to death slavery and then execution at any time during their interment. It was not the same. The details might be different on a " treatment level" but the big picture which is segregation is the same.
Which Americans were interned during World War 2?
Japanese-Americans .
Who received an apology and money from the federal government as a result of their internment during world war 2?
Japanese Americans living in the U.S. and Hawaii.
Why did the US restrict the activities of Japanese Americans during World War 1?
They thought that the Japanese Americans might be spies.
