They were opened persuant to Executive Order 9066 signed by Franklin
Roosevelt on 19 February 1942. Many Americans were concerned about
further further activities by what they wrongly felt were enemies. It was
a form of national hysteria.
Yes.
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.
there are 39 diffrent Japanese internment camps
See website: Japanese-American internment camps.
Yes, children were killed in internment camps.
Yes, all internment camps are forced incarceration.
No, the Japanese- Americans were not happy about the internment camps in WW2.
Japanese-American internment camps were established following the U.S. government's Executive Order 9066, which was signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942. The camps began opening in the spring of 1942, with the first one, Manzanar, opening in March. By mid-1942, over 120,000 Japanese Americans had been forcibly relocated to these camps across the country. The internment lasted until the camps were closed in 1945.
Internment Camps were used to confine and isolate people form the outside world.
See website: Japanese-American internment camps.
The end of the war made internment camps no longer neccssary or logical
No. The Japanese Internment camps were not hurtful, they simply isolated the Japanese from the rest of the country.