There were 110,000 - 120,000 sent to the camps during WW2.
About 120,000 Japanese-Americans, 3/4 LOYAL Americans (Nisei).
Although there is a general reference to 10 Japanese internet comps in the US during the second world war. The data on German and Italian camps is harder to find. There was also a camp for Alaskan natives.
Not all Japanese Americans were placed in Internment Camps, but the majority were. The ones that were not put in camps were generally Japanese immigrants who did not live near the Pacific.
I'm not sure exactly. This is a way to get started. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Americans feared that the Japanese living in the United States would do something bad and were somehow linked to the goverment.
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They really were much different Relocation Camps and Internment camps were the same thing just that relocation camps were the real camps and internment camps were where the Japanese Americans had to go before they made the relocation camps.
Because the U.S. government thought that some of them might be spies.
They were relocated by the US gov to camps called war relocation camps.
There were seven states that had Japanese Internment Camps in the US, they were, Colorado, Arizona, Wyoming, Arkansas, California, Idaho, and Utah.
They were relocation camps for Japanese American citizens for security reasons after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii 07 Dec 1941 They were not POW or concentration camps.
The Japanese-American internment was euphemistically referred to as "War Relocation Camps" which was one way of calling what were essentially concentration camps .
just cuz
We were at war with Japan and thought that they may be spying on the US.The Japanese Americans were sent to the relocation camps because the Americans suspected that there were spies in that particular group.