Essay On Japanese Internment Camps

Japanese-American Internment was the relocation of many Japanese-American and Japanese descendents into camps known as “War Relocation Camps” during World War II (specifically after the attack on Pearl Harbor). In 1942, the United States government relocated and interned approximately 120,000 Japanese-American citizens and people of Japanese descent into relocation camps. This internment lasted for about four years, and was backed by the government as well as the president. The last relocation camp was closed in January 1946, five months after World War II officially ended.

“ I think of the close friends who are now at the mercy of the cruelest monsters ever to stalk the earth.” This is what Anne Frank wrote about the Nazis in her diary. Although, the Americans weren’t much nicer to the Japanese. During the 1940’s these 2 groups of people,the Jews and Japanese-Americans, were being discriminated against. Though for very different reasons. Nazi concentration camps and Japanese internment camps were not essentially the same thing because Jews weren’t being treated like people, both camps served different purposes, and the Japanese were not being killed like the Jews .

World War II is the most brutal war in the history of the world. Both the U.S. and Germany put innocent people in internment camps (in the U.S.) and concentration camps (in Germany). Both countries treated both groups differently, but both were the same. The United States gave the Japanese fairly normal lives with the exception of that the Japanese could not leave the “cage”, while Germany gave the Jews next to no rights at all. Japanese internment camps and Jewish concentration camps were the same because each country wanted to be safe from the cause of their problems, both countries were both racist to the society that they put in the camps, and the two countries were both afraid of the other race.

On December 7, 1941 Japan bombed the United States at Pearl Harbor. The bombing of Pearl Harbor lasted very short than what you would expect which was only one day. Before Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, they started war with different nations that were around them. They did this to get the other nation’s materials, for an example oil, lumber, and coal. Japan was foolish for attacking the United States during WWII at Pearl Harbor; their motive was to take over the islands that the United States owned to become more powerful , in contempt of the end the Japanese lost and their cities were destroyed.

Pearl Harbor is the name given to the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, by the Japanese against the Americans on December 7th, 1941. Although there was growing tension between the United States and Japan dew to sanctions and frozen assets put on Japan, the attack was still a surprise for the world. 2400 Americans were killed in the attack, along with many ships and nearly two-hundred airplanes.1 The attack united the American people and under Franklin Roosevelt 's leadership, America declared war on Japan, with a unanimous vote in the senate and 388 to 1 vote in the house, with the lone dissenter being an avid pacifist. Soon after, Germany and Italy declared war on the United States and the United States declared war on the Axis powers in turn. America had finally joined the Second World War. When Roosevelt gave his speech that war was being declared, most of the country was behind him. There were fears that

The United States put Japanese people in camps, stealing their rights, and placed them in inhumane facilities that no human being should be forced to withstand.

On December 7, 1941, two waves of Japanese air fleets bombed the United States naval base known as Pearl Harbor. They destroyed and damaged eleven US battle ships, one hundred

December 7th, 1941, was the day 2,403 Americans lost their lives and 1,200 wounded during the Japanese air raid, on Pearl Harbor. On this day, the US Navy lost almost the entire Pacific Fleet in the harbor. After the attack, all the ships were either sunk or severally damaged minus the aircraft carriers. The aircraft carriers luckily were still at sea. The total number of military personnel killed was 2,335, including 2,008 navy personnel, 109 marines, and 218 army. Added to this were 68 civilians, making the total 2403 people dead. 1,177 men alone were from the USS Arizona.

On December 7, 1941, early in the morning Japan attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor. Nobody expected this. Japanese planes destroyed approximately 20 American naval vessels, and nearly 300 airplanes. 2000 American people were killed, and more than 100 injured.

On December 7 1941, The Japanese attacked a naval base on Pearl Harbor. The destroyed about twenty naval ships and nearly 2,400 Americans died. (History.com staff, 2009). It was a Japanese Victory. This surprise attack led the United States to enter the war. (Historyonthenet staff 2000).Americans viewed Japanese as threats.

To me the United States was absolutely not justified of keeping Japanese Americans in internment camps during World War II. I think it was absolutely terrible for them to do such harsh things to them .You are probably asking why well isn't America like land of the free and home of the brave yes of course so why did they have to do this to Japanese Americans. I believe they were in the wrong to do that to them when many of them were innocent and didn't harm no one or nothing. The only reason they did the camps were to keep a very close eye on them so another bombing wouldn’t happen.

America suffered heavy damage from this attack, 20 ships were damaged or destroyed. Over 300 planes were reduced to ashes. And there were over 3500 casualties. Many of which came from soldiers trapped in ships while they were sinking.

It was the Japanese that launched a surprise torpedo attack on December 7th of 1941 against American Naval base at Pearl Harbor, which was located in Oahu, Hawaii, west of Honolulu. In just two hours, the Japanese flew hundreds of fighter planes destroying almost twenty American naval vessels; including eight ships and over two hundred planes, and killing off over two thousands soldiers and sailors. After this barrage, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan. Only three days later, Japan’s allies, Germany and Italy also declared war on the U.S. It was this attack that led us into World War II.

Pearl Harbor happened around 8:00 a.m. on December 7, 1941 in Honolulu, Hawaii and was the turning point to World War two for the United States. Japan had a plan to destroy the Pacific Fleet, so Americans could not fight back. The Japanese intended it to be a surprise attack on Sunday because that's when the Americans would be more relaxed and least expect it to happen. The attack lasted about two hours. “The day after the assault, President FDR asked congress to declare war on Japan.” A huge amount of damage was done to Pearl Harbor, nearly twenty American Naval Vessels were destroyed. Eight huge battleships were destructed and “more than 2,000 American soldiers and sailors and died in the attack.”

On December 7th, 1941, Japan bombed the United States Army, Air Force, and Naval Bases, in Hawaii at Pearl Harbor. The next day on December 8th, 1941, the U.S. entered World War II declaring war on Japan as they provoked us to do so with their sneaky aerial attack. Behind the scenes of the extensive fighting, American