Distrust and racism led to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War 2. Even families that had lived in the United States for generations were sent to camps.
The largest Japanese Internment Camp built during World War 2 was the Oikawa camp in Nevada. It held approximately 50,000 people against their will during the war.
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Japanese-American internment was the forced relocation and internment by the United States government in 1942 of approximately 110,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese residing along the Pacific coast of the United States to camps called "War Relocation Camps" (a polite way of saying Concentration Camps) in the wake of Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the United States was gripped by war hysteria. This was especially strong along the Pacific coast of the U.S., where residents feared more Japanese attacks on their cities, homes, and businesses. Leaders in California, Oregon, and Washington, demanded that the residents of Japanese ancestry be removed from their homes along the coast and relocated in isolated inland areas.While the threat from Japanese spies and saboteurs was real, it was primarily the distrust many Americans felt of the mysterious Japanese culture. Combined with virulent Propaganda against the Japanese enemy, it created a dangerously hostile situation. Some top military leaders (later known for undisguised racial bias) were allowed to contravene the rights of loyal Americans. Years later, some were compensated for their hardships, albeit both belatedly and inadequately.Pearl Harbour led to the internment of the Japanese Americans because it scared the American citizens into being sucpisious of any Japanese person, and the government's solution was to place the Japanese Americans in internment camp so no uprisings would occur.
They were not placed anywhere. Japan was not an enemy in World War I.
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Japanese-Americans were sent to internment camps during World War II. This internment occurred even if they were no threat.
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Japanese Americans living in the U.S. and Hawaii.
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How were civil liberties denied Japanese Americans during World War II.
The USA was worried about the Japanese-Americans on the coast supplying Japanese with information and helping the Japanese attack the USA in any way. So the USA put the Japanese-Americans in internment camps.
A Japanese internment camp was where Japanese and Japanese Americans were housed during World War II. Japanese Americans were stripped of their possessions and taken to camps with just the minimum needed to live. Even young children were taken.
Internment camps
Internment camps in the SW United States