During World War II, the US government, under Executive Order 9066, authorized the internment of Japanese Americans. Approximately 120,000 individuals of Japanese ancestry, including both US citizens and non-citizens, were forcibly removed from their homes and relocated to internment camps. The involvement included government officials, military personnel, and law enforcement authorities.
"Japanese-American internment" where US citizens sere forcibly relocated into what was euphemistically referred to as "War Relocation Camps" : Executive Order 9066 .
It was the forced relocation by the US of the Japanese Americans~Sarah
There were many reasons why someone was moved into an internment camp during World War 2. In the US, some Japanese people were put into camps because of their descent. In Germany, many Jews, homosexuals, gypsy, and political enemies were put in camps for no reason.
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor some US officials thought the Japanese might have spies hiding among the ethnic Japanese populations in the US so they put the Japanese from the west coast into camps to watch them.The US population as a whole were too caught up in war hysteria to recognize a difference between Japanese living in Japan and US citizens with Japanese ancestry. They had somewhat less difficulty making a similar distinction between Germans and Italians (also at war with the US) and US citizens with German or Italian backgrounds.The internment revealed the level of distrust that Americans (and Canadians) had for those of Japanese heritage, and indeed for all Asians.
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During World War II, the US government, under Executive Order 9066, authorized the internment of Japanese Americans. Approximately 120,000 individuals of Japanese ancestry, including both US citizens and non-citizens, were forcibly removed from their homes and relocated to internment camps. The involvement included government officials, military personnel, and law enforcement authorities.
Fearing that Japanese living in the United States would help Japan, the government gathered up almost 120,000 Japanese-Americans and resident Japanese aliens and placed them in internment camps. Some people remained in the camps for over three years.
The racist Americans of the 1940s realized they could not put all the Italians and Germans into internment camps to weed out spies. They would have had to put half of New York City citizens into internment camps. There were millions of them in the US at that time as there are now too. There were not as many Japanese so they put them into the camps illlegally.
Not anymore, but there were in the Second World War. They were known more commonly as internment camps during those times; the term concentration camp was created by the Nazis in the 1930's.
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.
Japanese and Japanese-Americans, many of whom were US citizens.
Japanese Americans were temporarily imprisoned in isolated locations
Japanese Americans were temporarily imprisoned in isolated locations
Pearl Harbor!
"Japanese-American internment" where US citizens sere forcibly relocated into what was euphemistically referred to as "War Relocation Camps" : Executive Order 9066 .
Tens of thousands