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Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, in Hawaii on December 7, 1941. FDR said it was a day that will live in infamy. On December 8, 1941, the US declares war on Japan, Germany, and Italy. Franklyn D. Roosevelt signed the Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942, allowing Japanese and Japanese American citizens to be put in internment camps in California, Oregon, Washington, and Arizona.

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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.


Could children ever be born in concentration camps?

Yes, if the mother was going to give birth whilst they were in the concentration camps.


Was it easy for people to get into to the concentration camps?

that is abit of a silly question because no one wanted to go to the concentration camps but if the Germans found them they had to go as soon as they arrived they knew that they were going into the camps


Does the US have concentration camps?

No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!That would break every rule/law and everything that America stands for. What would give you that idea? But anyway no that would only happen if the Nazi's had taken over the world.Dude.. .Watch this!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeqjykY5wPk&feature=relatedI didn't want to post up the scary video going around, It give me nightmares.There is LOADS of stuff on this, not just alex jones.Hope this helps.


Where were the internees sent before going to the camps?

Wee website: Japanese-American internment camps.

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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.


Could children ever be born in concentration camps?

Yes, if the mother was going to give birth whilst they were in the concentration camps.


Was it easy for people to get into to the concentration camps?

that is abit of a silly question because no one wanted to go to the concentration camps but if the Germans found them they had to go as soon as they arrived they knew that they were going into the camps


Does the US have concentration camps?

No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!That would break every rule/law and everything that America stands for. What would give you that idea? But anyway no that would only happen if the Nazi's had taken over the world.Dude.. .Watch this!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeqjykY5wPk&feature=relatedI didn't want to post up the scary video going around, It give me nightmares.There is LOADS of stuff on this, not just alex jones.Hope this helps.


Where were the internees sent before going to the camps?

Wee website: Japanese-American internment camps.


Were people allowed to talk on the trains going to concentration camps?

yes.


What did they do a concentration camps?

they killed the jews mostly by them going into gas chambers


Did the Jews know were they where going in 1941?

No. Most Jews were unaware of the existence and purpose of the Concentration Camps and the Death Camps.


Where did most of the residents of Theresienstadt end up going?

They ended up on going to concentration camps?


When did the Jewish stoped going to concentration camps?

never, they stopped being forced when the Nazis were no longer in charge. Currently Jews and other tourists go to concentration camps on pilgrimage.


How were the Nazi concentration camps formed?

By Adolf Hilter, He decided to build the Nazi camps but it was people who were going to be in it akak Labout workers who actually built the camps.


Was the world going to do anything about concentration camps during World War 2?

no, there was nothing illegal about the camps, many counties employed them (including the USA), it was what was going on in them that was wrong.