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Because they were a different race. We were also at war with Germany and Italy, but German and Italian-Americans weren't imprisoned.
(alternate answer) During WW II, when the US was at war with Imperial Japan, it was feared that Japanese Americans would be more loyal to their ethnic group, the Japanese, than they were to the country in which they were living, America, hence they might become saboteurs (or as they would be called today, terrorists). Note that there was no evidence for this fear, and the internment of the Japanese Americans is today recognized as a terrible injustice.
What else can I help you with?
How did the us government policy of internment affect thousands of Japanese Americans on the west coast of the US?
The effects on the internment of Japanese-Americans was negative psychologically. Shock and fear plagued the Japanese-Americans as a result of the internment camps.
Why did the US government intern many Japanese Americans in relocation camps?
Americans thought Japanese Americans were helping japan during ww2
How many Japanese Americans lived in the contiguous US in 1910?
72,157
What is Japanese American born in the us is known as?
If born in the US, Japanese Americans are American citizens. They have all the rights as every person born in America.
After Japan attacked Pearl Harbor the US decided to put its what kind of Americans into iternment camps?
Japanese-Americans.
Who are some Japanese Americans born in America?
Japanese Americans born in America are American citizens. The term Japanese Americans means that they are of Japanese decent but live in the US.
How did the us government policy of internment affect thousands of Japanese Americans on the west coast of the US?
The effects on the internment of Japanese-Americans was negative psychologically. Shock and fear plagued the Japanese-Americans as a result of the internment camps.
How did the us government policy of internment affect thousands of Japanese Americans of the west coast of the US?
Japanese Americans were temporarily imprisoned in isolated locations
How did the Us. government policy of internment affect thousands of Japanese-Americans on the west coast of the US?
Japanese Americans were temporarily imprisoned in isolated locations
How did the us government policy of intrnment affect thousands of Japanese Americans on the west coast of the US?
Japanese Americans were temporarily imprisoned in isolated locations
Did the Americans send the Japanese Americans back to the US after they were released from internment camps?
They never left the US.
Why did the US restrict the activities of Japanese Americans during World War 1?
They thought that the Japanese Americans might be spies.
Why did the US government intern many Japanese Americans in relocation camps?
Americans thought Japanese Americans were helping japan during ww2
What assumptions did the us government make about Japanese Americans when it moved them to internment camps?
The government feared the japanese americans could not be trusted
Why did the Japanese Americans have to move to the camps?
Because the US leaders feared that the Japanese Americans might help Japan in World War ll.
What was the internment?
It was the forced relocation by the US of the Japanese Americans~Sarah
Does technological culture free us or imprison us?
yes
