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.
About 120,000 Japanese-Americans, 3/4 LOYAL Americans (Nisei).
Japanese Americans , Blacks , Hispanics, Women, German Americans, Italian Americans
From 1942 to 1945, it was the policy of the U.S. government that people of Japanese descent would be interred in isolated camps. Enacted in reaction to Pearl Harbor and the ensuing war, the Japanese internment camps are now considered one of the most atrocious violations of American civil rights in the 20th century.
People in the US were affected in many ways during WW2, including:Japanese Americans were forcibly moved to internment camps, and kept there during the war.Women had to go to work in US mines and factories.Homemakers recycled everything, including rags to send overseas for soldiers to use on equipment.Rationing was a huge sacrifice. Little bread, milk, cheese, eggs, produce, etc.People made do to get by.
Ten weeks after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066, authorizing the removal of any or all people from military areas "as deemed necessary or desirable." The military in turn defined the entire West Coast, home to the majority of Americans of Japanese ancestry or citizenship, as a military area. By June, more than 110,000 Japanese Americans were relocated to remote internment camps built by the U.S. military in scattered locations around the country. For the next two and a half years, many of these Japanese Americans endured extremely difficult living conditions and poor treatment by their military guards. On December 17, 1944, U.S. Major General Henry C. Pratt issued Public Proclamation No. 21, declaring that, effective January 2, 1945, Japanese-American "evacuees" from the West Coast could return to their homes. During the course of World War II, 10 Americans were convicted of spying for Japan, but not one of them was of Japanese ancestry. In 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed a bill to recompense each surviving internee with a tax-free check for $20,000 and an apology from the U.S. government.
About 120,000 Japanese-Americans, 3/4 LOYAL Americans (Nisei).
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.
Under an Executive Order, Americans interred Japanese-Americans.
People of Japanese heritage
The U.S. government put all Japanese-Americans in internment camps. They weren't treated well at all. Some internment camps housed these people in old horse stalls!!!!
Japanese and Japanese-Americans, many of whom were US citizens.
Japanese Internment camps were never a necessity. Based on a few Japanese people who hid a Japanese pilot, the entire population of Japanese Americans were convicted without a jury. Yet, Japanese Americans still continued to join the army, and go to fight for their country while their families were forced to live in internment camps. Historians agree this was a very dark time in American history.
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.
Force or threaten the Japanese-People
No. The Japanese Internment camps were not hurtful, they simply isolated the Japanese from the rest of the country.
The American government placed people of Japanese descent into internment camps for fear that they would be succeptible to acts of espionage.