Because the US leaders feared that the Japanese Americans might help Japan in World War ll.
Japanese-Americans.
Japanese/Americans
FDR (Franklin Delano Roosevelt) signed a executive order that would put the Japanese Americans (most were loyal to the US, actually) in the internment camps.
No, the Japanese- Americans were not happy about the internment camps in WW2.
The internments were motivated by the fear of covert Japanese attacks on the mainland United States, and by outbreaks of public hostility toward Japanese-Americans.
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.
Internment camps
Americans.
See website: Japanese-American internment
See website: Japanese-American internment camps.
Japanese internment camps were set up in the USA in WW2 to contain Japanese Americans. An obvious con of the camps were that they infringed on the rights of innocent American citizens. A pro is that they kept non Japanese Americans from panicking.
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