Allied civilians and possibly European Jewish refugees
See: Japanese American internment
Prior to the attack on Pearl Harbour, Japanese-Americans faced suspicion and hostility from US civilians. Following the attack, they were sent to internment camps until 1945.
No it was not - they were American citizens who had done nothing wrong. They were not fighting on the Japanese side during the war. The internment was caused by fear and racism.
Japanese-Americans were sent to internment camps during World War II. This internment occurred even if they were no threat.
No --- I believe you're thinking of Manzanar. Manzanar was an internment camp used for the Japanese during WWII.
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.
A little over 100,000 Japanese were held in internment camps.
the Japanese Americans.
The Japanese Americans
Japanese internment camps sprung up during World War Two. These camps relocated 110,000 Japanese Americans on the West Coast. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was a factor in the development of these camps.
See: Japanese American internment
Japanese American property losses during their wartime internment.
Japanese American property losses during their wartime internment.
US Internment Camps during WW IIThe related link site will have a map of all the Japanese-American Internment camps in the United States 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.
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.
They were put in internment camps where there was nothing to do.
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.
Japanese-Americans were forcibly relocated into Internment Camps .
They were placed in concentration camps ; Japanese-American internment .
Sadly there were 110,000 - 120,000 Japanese Americans sent to the internment camps during WW2.
This happened during World War II after the Japanese attacked the US base in Hawaii when Franklin Roosevelt was president.
Thousands of Japanese-Americans were forced to live in Japanese internment camps in the U.S. There were really no benefits to the relocation and it proved to be the largest violations of civil liberties in American history.
prejudice had intensified in the us