...This investigation will focus on the key motivations behind the internment of Japanese individuals camps after the end of World War II, and attempt to answer the question “To what extent was President Franklin D. Roosevelt responsible for Japanese internment during and after World War II?” Japanese internment was the forced removal of Japanese civilians, specifically in the Pacific Coast region, which arose when President Franklin D. Roosevelt passed Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942 in response to the bombing of Pearl Harbor, which occurred on December 7, 1941. In order to thoroughly explore this topic, the following subtopics will be considered: context of Pearl Harbor and how it had affected America’s perception of the Japanese...
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...The Japanese American citizens were treated very poorly in the United States well before World War 2 and the Japanese American internment. Racial prejudice and unfair treatment toward the Japanese American citizens began in the late 1800's and steadily built over the next few decades. Japanese Americans were subjected to getting land in areas where no one else wanted to be such as near power lines and on dirt or soil where it was hard to build. The Japanese Americans were also held down in the farming and mining industries by often paranoid local American competitors. The Japanese bombed the United States in Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 which led to a national widespread fear of Japanese citizens, primarily on the west coast, carrying...
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... during World War II, Japanese-Americans were relocated into internment camps out of suspicion of threatening the war effort. This part in history is known as a violation of civil liberties. About 127,000 people of Japanese descent have settled in America, and were forced into ten internment camps located across America. In December 1941, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor leading people to begin rumors about Japanese-Americans plotting to wreck the war effort. With the fear of potential sabotage, they pressured the Roosevelt Administration to remove any citizen of Japanese descent from the West Coast. In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, forcing all Japanese-Americans to leave the West Coast whether they were a legal citizen in the United States or not. A few days have been given to the people of Japanese ancestry on the West Coast to prepare for their movement. Each person was assigned an identification number and put in transportation buses with the only belongings that they could carry. Japanese-Americans had been transported to 17 temporary military centers, located in facilities such as racetracks in California, Arizona, Oregon, and Washington. Afterwards, they were sent to 10 internment camps set up in Idaho, California, Arkansas, Colorado, Arizona, Wyoming and Utah...
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...The first article is written in support of the Japanese internments, that were made my President Franklin D. Roosevelt after the bombing of Pearl Harbor by the country of Japan. The author describes the removal of Japanese-Americans, from their homes and communities, as a demonstration of their loyalty to the United States. At that time, that internment camps were made in the United States, there was a growing anti-Japanese sentiment throughout the country. Americans were afraid and angered by Japanese, subsequently they decided to put them into camps, so they would not cause them any harm. The author does his best to try and pursue Japanese-Americans to just leave their homes not even try to fight it. The author mentions that yes, it might be an “inconvenient” and maybe “even work serious hardships”, but overall...
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...The internment of the Japanese American population was a dark chapter in American history that drastically altered the lives of generations of Japanese Americans. Generations after the war ended curious arose about the hardships experienced by the Japanese American’s in the relocation camps. The tales often unheard are of the Japanese first generation women, Issei, and the second generation Japanese Americans, Nisie, who directly experienced the drastic shift in gender role, education, and economic freedom. The first Japanese immigrants came to the United States in search for the American Dream and with them they “often brought the strongly patriarchal agrarian values and family roles of the old county with them” Charlotte O’Kelly and L.S. Carney stated in “Capitalist Industrial Society” (1968,...
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...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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...Treatment of Japanese Canadians During WWII: An Atrocious Chapter in Canadian History In 1942, the middle of World War Two, Japanese Canadians in British Columbia were forced to enter internment camps. Many of them would remain there until the end of the war and following it would have to relocate in Canada or be deported to Japan. Years later, in 1988, the Canadian government would apologise for the terrible treatment that Japanese Canadians endured in this time. The actions of the government regarding Japanese Canadians during WWII were unnecessary and a social injustice. The internment of these people was unjust due to their treatment within and outside of the camps, no prevention of any harm, and its encouragement of racism in a time of fear. When the government enacted the War Measures Act, the 22,000 Japanese Canadians living on the West Coast were invited to move to “relocation centres” near the Okanagan...
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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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...Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt officially declares a state of war was present; Public and government officials had a growing fear of additional attacks by the Japanese, leading Franklin Roosevelt to issue Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942 (Exec. Order No. 9066, 1942). The Executive Order allowed the United States Military authority to designate “military zones” forcing the removal of 120,000 Japanese-Americans out of their homes and businesses. Fear that the Japanese-Americans would welcome the attackers and fight alongside the enemy. With this fear in the nation, the government targets against the Japanese, and the pressure from the public all demonstrates that race was a key factor in the government’s internment of the Japanese American citizens during World War II. Asian immigrants felt the acts of discrimination as early as the 1800s when the immigration from China ended fiercely and led to the Chinese Exclusion Act. In 1885, the massacre of 28 Chinese mineworker in Wyoming, the white mineworkers were fearful of the labor competitions...
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...Valle Lopez 1 Japanese internment U.S. government did not do the right thing when it interment Americans, if so then why were they living in concentration camps, being judge by their race or being accused of being spies. If that what you call keeping them safe then i don't know what you're thinking. The U.S. government treated the Japanese with disrespect. No matter how you look,speak,dress or who your ancestors are? We bleed the same color, we are all equal and should be treated the same way. Concentration camps is a large numbers of people,who lives imprisoned small area with inadequate facilities. This also mean about 127,000 citizens were imprisoned during World War II. Their crime? Being of Japanese ancestry. On September 1942 The Crisis Article says “Americans in Concentration Camps” we see Japanese as immigrants or not one of us because of their ancestry now they live in small area in camp hardly any food or water they work like...
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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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...The internment of Japanese-American citizens during World War II is a dark and often overlooked stain on America’s history. In 1942, Executive Order 9066 was signed by Roosevelt ordering the internment of all citizens of Japanese ancestry. For a war being fought against an anti-Semitic Germany, it seems ironic now that America would intern its citizens based on race too similarly to the way Germany interned its citizens based on religion. It can be difficult to understand how a nation based the principles of freedom and liberty could intern any population of people, but by taking a look at other unethical situations in United States’ history and world history, an explanation can begin to be found in the ideas of authorization, routinization,...
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