...Shatara Dixon May 21 2014 USH B Veronica Vredenburgh Japanese Internment On December 7, 1941 the Japanese took a strike at Pearl Harbor. The United States feared the Japanese would attack again, and war overran the country. The President of the United States, which was President Roosevelt at the time, had a lot of pressure on him to interfere with the issue. In response, on February 19 1942, the President published the Executive Order 9066 on. This commanded a relocation of over 120,000 American citizens. More than 80,000 of those imprisoned were citizens of America and 60,000 were children. Some families were split up and put in other camps. It is important for people to learn about this event because U.S. citizens, as ourselves, in WWII went through a lot just for being of Japanese descent. They were innocent American citizens who were stereotyped and treated like criminals. The life in camps were hard. The prisoners were only privileged to bring a few needs. Forty-eight hours were all they was given to evacuate their houses. They lived in military like barracks and was forced to use public areas to wash, do laundry, and eat. Many of the prisoners died from the lack of medical treatment and emotional stress. Some of them were taken to camps in the desert areas and had to deal with extreme heat. The camps were guarded by armed soldiers, and the ones who misbehaved were sent to a facility. Public Proclamation number 21 became effective in January of 1945. This allowed...
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...provides information about Japanese Internment Camps in a positive way. Despite its title, Americans of Japanese ancestry or immigrants from Japan seem happy in the film to be relocated inland. They were provided with a proper housing that is twenty by twenty-five feet, with windows, stove, and lumber for the Japanese relocation people to integrate their new home to their liking. Japanese Americans were provided food in a mess hall that was mostly grown at the Internment Camps. Agricultural work was common in these communities and a high wage of fourteen to sixteen dollars a month was given to every worker. In these Japanese Internment Camps, a sense of community was easily made due to their similar background and experience. Among these communities, they created schools, churches for various religion, and a democratic government in order to settle rules and disputes. Some white Americans visited the camps in order to provide aid to the Japanese community. Military personnel surrounded the internment camp, guarding the wired fence to protect these new Japanese communities. Some Japanese relocation camps aided in the military as some went out of the camps...
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...family, and your entire race was forced to leave everything behind and be relocated into internment camps just for being at the wrong place at the wrong time. Well, that’s what happened to the American-Japanese. The Executive Order 9066 was an unnecessary and racist act because they were the targeted, but an innocent race that got punished for unjust reasons. This essay will be explaining why the use of internment camps were one-sided. Firstly, why were the Japanese the only ones to be relocated? The Germans and Italians had been a threat to America, yet they unfairly, didn’t bite the dust. In the article Point/Counterpoint;The Japanese-American Internment, in the section Japanese-American Internment Was An Unnecessary And A Racist Act, it states “No such measure was taken against German or Italian nationals.” This shows even though this order was supposed to be a war measure, it wasn’t because only the Japanese were relocated and not the other possible threats to America like the Germans or Italians. The Japanese was alone forcefully transported to the camps because of the American’s fearful thoughts on them....
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...The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States during the World War II was a very devastating event in history. Many Americans were filled with fear and anger. They feared that those who are on American soil and has Japanese ancestry were enemies and would bring danger to the country. All these anxieties led to the decision of creating the internment camps. The Japanese American internment camps were a gratuitous act that revealed the Americans’ fear, and true feelings and thoughts about the accused enemies. One reason why the internment camps were unnecessary is that none of the Japanese-Americans had caused any troubles or disruptions in the country, yet the government still considered relocating them to a miserable and strange setting. According to the article, “Japanese-American Internment Was An Unnecessary And A Racist Act,” Henry Steele Commager, a historian, stated that “It is sobering to recall that the record does not disclose a single case of Japanese disloyalty or sabotage...
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...The internment of Japanese-Americans in the United States during World War II was a horrific act of forced relocation and confinement in camps in the inner western states of the country. Between 110,000 and 120,000 Japanese-Americans, most of whom lived on the Pacific coast were subjected to the internment. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, war hysteria and a fear of the Japanese spread across the nation. President Roosevelt worked to counter this by issuing Executive Order 9066, thereby forcibly removing all Japanese-Americans from their homes and relocating them to internment camps outside of the restricted military zones. As his wife, Eleanor Roosevelt would write, “They were marked as different from other races and were not treated on an equal basis. In one part of our country, they were feared as competitors, and the rest of our country knew them so little and cared so little about them that they did not even think about the principle that we in this country believe in - that of equal rights for all human...
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...To say that the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII was unexpected would be a lie. The U.S. is a country that has a long history of discrimination based on race. After pearl harbor many citizens of the U.S. acted in a very predictable way. Race based violence started occurring towards Japanese people and some unlucky person of Asian heritage. This is what has historically happened in the U.S. when the citizens do not understand a different group. Unrealistic generalization and stereotyping spread like wildfire in these kind of circumstances. There will always be people in any country that do not accept, and the people of the U.S. do quite a bit. Yet the trend seems to be that there is always one group that becomes the target after one incident created by an immeasurably smaller part of that said group. This time it was the Japanese. Is it really protecting the safety of American citizens when they and their families are put in internment camps? The internment of Japanese-Americans was wholly expected in a country with a...
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...During World War II the American government put all Japanese Americans on the west coast into internment camps. The reason they gave for this was that they were worried the Japanese Americans would act as spies or saboteurs for the Japanese government, so the government’s solution was to lock them up to prevent them from doing so. However, according to the documents the real reason for the internment of the Japanese Americans was because of their race. In Document C, an excerpt from an editorial published in 1942 in the NAACP’s official magazine, they talk about how although the Germans and the Italians on the east coast are “dangers… the American government has not taken any such high-handed action” against them like they did with the Japanese....
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...The Japanese internment camps were a result of rumors, and distrust by the American government towards the Japanese Americans after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The government gave little information on where they were going or what was going to happen to them. The Japanese were treated unfairly by being forced out of their homes into camps, with uncertainty about the future. Evacuation Order 9066 read, “Pursuant to the provisions of Civilian Exclusion Order No. 33, this Headquarters, dated May 3, 1942, all persons of Japanese ancestry, both alien and non-alien, will be evacuated from the above area by 12 o’clock noon P.W.T., Saturday, May 9, 1942.” In a Chicago Tribune, printed in 1963, there was an article called ‘Voice of the People” and one author states that the imprisonment of 120,000 Americans without criminal charges were not necessary for reasons of national security. The FBI had kept close surveillance of the Japanese-Americans on the West Coast and reported to the Justice Department that they were loyal to the U.S. There was no act of sabotage by a Japanese-American during the war....
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...imprisoned because of their race? Well people being of Japanese ancestry got put into 4 different types of camps. the types of camps were assembly centers,internment camps, detention or isolation camps. The Japanese Americans were thought to have loyalty to japan. The families that were held in the camps had to work,parents were getting paid 5 dollars,the kids were forced to go to school.This is why America is a terrible place. The start of the camps happened two weeks after the pearl harbor bombing. The U.S President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the document for 9066 which made all Japanese Americans leave the west coast("Japanese Americans in Concentration Camps"). The camps broke up family members and relationships. In march 1946 the last camp closed down, then 1988 the government award prizes to the Japanese American for surviving the camp() The bombing of pearl harbor took rights from the Japanese Americans before they were put in camps. After the camps, some places...
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...If you ask me, I think the United States was being cautious about imprisoning the Japanese Americans. Putting the Japanese into internment camps was a dreadful move for those who were put into camps. These people were American citizens just like we are. Sure their country of ethnicity attacked our country but not all of the Japanese people were guilty. Many of those were second generation,for one reason, and other means existed for ensuring security also. Because of the harsh living conditions the Japanese was forever physically and mentally distressed. The second generation was for the most part the most innocent people in this event. The second generation received their whole education in the United States. They were usually insulted by their...
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...Japanese Interment Camps In 1941, the Japanese Army flew over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and bombed the U.S. military base stationed there. After this attack, many Americans were scared that there were some Japanese spies living among them. Two months after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt signed an executive order to relocate all Japanese – Americans to one of ten internment camps on the western side of the United States. The U.S. Military is not justified for doing this because they put many innocent Americans into these camps and they were difficult to live in. Right after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, many Americans freaked out. Many thought that some Japanese immigrants very actually spies living among them, working for the Japanese Government....
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...concentration camps and America had Japanese internment camps. Concentration camps were work camps for the people in Germany who were deemed impure, these people often died of disease, starvation, or cyanide gas. Internment camps were plots of land guarded by layers of barbed wire fences, that the Japanese people were put into with no resources. Nazi concentration camps and Japanese internment camps were essentially the same because both the Jews and the Japanese lost their rights as citizens, in both camps people were dehumanized, and in the two camps were used to jail those who opposed or threatened their governments. Both the Jews and the Japanese lost their rights as citizens of their countries. First in Japanese internment camps the people were classified as non-alien enemies. The loyal Japanese citizens couldn’t even be called citizens anymore but were classified as non-alien enemies. Second before the concentration camps in Germany, the Jewish people were stripped of their rights to everything, their homes, their businesses, and going to...
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...the United States government has compromised its citizens’ liberties numerous times in the past few centuries. The higher organization claims that it is for the safety and security of the country, but are these arrangements worth the withdrawal of freedoms? Through the ten amendments, the Bill of Rights grants each U.S. citizen the same privileges. This document is the foundation of the country and should be properly recognized in every aspect. Despite the fact that the government claims its actions are simply for everyone’s security and well being, liberties were compromised and the Bill of Rights not respected when the Japanese-American internment camps were established and the Patriot Act was written. A major important event that has been one of America’s lowest points is the creation of the Japanese-American internment camps. Over two-thirds of the Japanese-Americans living in the country were interned because of domestic, including Roosevelt’s, paranoia after the attack on Pearl Harbor. There were a few court...
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...before the Japanese bombings at Pearl Harbor, public sentiment towards American-Japanese citizens was less than friendly, but afterwards what had once been a simmering dislike boiled over into fear and utter hatred. Since the average American could not go and fight the Japanese nationals directly, many tried to ease their grief by targeting Japanese-American citizens, with disastrous results. On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which cleared the way for the detainment of Japanese-American Citizens in internment camps specifically built for that purpose. Today this Order is viewed as a massive breach in human rights and American civil liberties, but at the time many Americans, though fearful of setting a precedent for future mass incarcerations felt there were few good options and so few protested the Order. Though this event is a stain upon America’s history, the reasoning behind it, that it would protect the country...
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...The Japanese Experience: Pre and Post Internment Camp The Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor in December of 1941 caused the United States to not only declare war against Japan, but also to demand internment for anyone persons living in the United States that would be considered a national security threat, most of those people being Japanese-Americans. The Japanese experience has been altered by the policies and narrative of United States history. As waves of immigrants began to populate more of the West Coast, the growing frustration of California citizens allowed for the legal discrimination of most Asian Americans. Throughout their time in the U.S, there is a rich history attached to the Japanese experience. Among World War II, internment camps,...
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