The U.S. entered WWII and Japan because the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Pearl Harbor was a naval base. This attack killed hundreds of U.S. soldiers. After this attack America joined the war. The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor because the United States boycotted them.
AnswerThere was some concern regarding whether the Japanese in this country would be loyal to the Emperor of Japan or to the United States.There were many reasons, the official reason given was because Japanese Americans living on the west coast were direct threats to National security.
Following the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese, Canada interned its Japanese citizens and declared war on Japan during World War II. Japanese-Canadian citizens were forcibly relocated, interrogated, and put under curfew. Due to racism, Prime Minister Mackenzie King deemed the internment necessary. Japanese newspapers were shut down, and personal property like houses, boats, cars and personal items were all sold.
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At the time following the Attack on Pearl Harbor (Dec. 7, 1941), fear ran strong in America. The U.S. Government decided it was best to place all Japanese-Americans into Relocation Camps in the Southwestern United States.
Executive Order 9066, issued by FDR, mandated this policy. One of the most notable camps in the Southwest was located in Poston, Arizona along the Colorado River.
During WW II, when the US was at war with Imperial Japan, it was feared that Japanese Americans would be more loyal to their ancestral country than to the country in which they were living, although there was no evidence that they were anything other than loyal Americans. The internment remains a particularly disgraceful chapter of American history.
The government feared the japanese americans could not be trusted
Confinement in internment camps
policies based on racist ideas.
The U.S. government put many Japanese Americans in internment camps
This happened during World War II after the Japanese attacked the US base in Hawaii when Franklin Roosevelt was president.
The Japanese
Canada: Canadian citizens of Japanese descent lived in the internment camps. I'm not too sure about the Americans :P
The Japanese were unconstitutionally and unfairly interned in internment camps around the USA. Canadian Japanese had the same thing happen to them. I have added some links below for you so you can see on a map were the internment camps were and the names of them. I added Canada too for you in case you are doing a research paper.
After the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 on December 7th
The Japanese-Americans were compelled to enter into internment camps .
See website: Japanese-American internment
there are 39 diffrent Japanese internment camps
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.
See website: Japanese-American internment camps.
No, the Japanese- Americans were not happy about the internment camps in WW2.
See: Japanese American internment
See website: Japanese-American internment