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Why we're Americans on the west coast forced to move to internet camps?
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To where were the japanese-americans first moved?
Some 120 000 Japanese-Americans during World War II were forced into internment camps along the United States Pacific coast after Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. The order started plans of 10 internment camps.
Why were Japanese on the west coast forced to live in internment camps?
the west coast was an exclusion zone.they were believed to be spies and enemies of the state
What group was placed in internment camps in the US during World War 2?
I think you are referring to the WWII Japanese internment camps. After Pearl Harbor, it was thought that Japanese-American citizens could not be trusted, so they were rounded up and forced to live at various "camps" around the U.S. until the war was over. See the Related Links below.
Which group of Americans was forced to move from the West Coast of the US into other parts of the country?
japenese americans
Interment camps were set up for Japanese American?
Japanese and Japanese Americans living on the US west coast were placed in internment camps on the claim that spies and sabatouers could be hiding among them. Since Japanese and Japanese Americans living in Hawaii and in the US east of the Mississippi were not forced into camps, and since no American citizens of German or Italian descent were placed in internment camps, the actual reason is more likely related to racial stereotypes and anti-Japanese hysteria.Read more: Why_were_Internment_camps_set_up_for_Japanese_Americans
What is the history of Japanese internment camps?
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.
Which group of people was placed in the west coast internment camps?
Under an Executive Order, Americans interred Japanese-Americans.
Why were certain Americans placed in internment camps?
After Pearl Harbor Japanese Americans on the west coast were put into interment camps. It was thought at the time that there could be spies among them. The west coast had blackouts at nights where all lights along the coast were turned off. Civilians worked as outlooks for submarines and some coastal cities had camouflaged netting across streets. There was a real fear of attack on the west coast of a submarine attack.
What led to internment camps during world war 2?
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.
What kind of camps are in America?
America did not take part in the final solution, only the Nazis did. In America there humanely run Prisoner of War camps, Unlike the Nazi system There were also relocation camps for Japanese Americans living on the west coast.
Why was it go to send Japanese Americans to concernation camps?
The thinking was that among the population of Japanese Americans on the west coast there had to be spies, so the government collected everyone and put them in the camps. The people lost farms, homes, and businesses in the process. It wasn't right that the government did this.
Why were thousands of Japanese Americans interned in the relocation camps?
After the event of Pearl Harbor, Americans felt threatened by the Japanese-Americans. The Americans thought the Japanese-Americans on the East coast had contact with their kind in Japan and that they should cut that conact. They immedietly started moving all Japanese-Americans to interment camps all over, but left them the choice of either going to the camps, or going to Japan. Not many moved back to Japan, feeling defient and angry. The Japanese-Americans lived in their camp for under ten years, and then where allowed to leave.
