Internment Camps In The USA

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the internment of Japanese Americans on the West coast of the United States. On going tension between the United States and Japan rose in the 1930’s due to Japan’s increasing power and because of this tension the bombing at Pearl Harbor occurred. This event then led the United States to join World War II. However it was the Executive Order of 9066 that officially led to the internment of Japanese Americans. Japanese Americans, some legal and illegal residents, were moved into internment camps between 1942-1946. The internment of Japanese Americans affected not only these citizens but the

In many times throughout history groups of people have been discriminated against based on race or religion. These people receive inferior rights because of the discrimination. In some cases they do not get citizenship, in others they are segregated from others, and physically harmed. Two groups of people that faced discrimination near World War II (WWII) were the Jewish people and Japanese Americans. Both groups faced very different types of discrimination by different oppressors with different motives yet their treatment was very similar and many events paralleled each other. The treatment of Japanese in WWII internment camps was as harsh as the Holocaust's treatment of the Jewish people.

On December 7th, 1941 Japan bombed Pearl Harbour, "a date which will live in infamy"(http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5166/), sending America into a widespread panic, and anger. This day is what caused us to do something that no one would of thought we would ever do. We created internment camps here in America after signing executive order 9066, which authorized the relocation of all Japanese here in the US to those dreaded internment camps. The conditions were bad but not as bad as they were in Germany where millions of Jews died. After the war the remaining internees were freed to go rebuild their lives, during their captivity they were many legal cases against the Japanese internment, but fear overcame what was right.

5. Relate to students of the same age by interpreting the emotions expressed by seventh graders sent to Japanese Internment Camps

On March 1st 1942 the US military started the removal of Japanese immigrants and their descendants from their homes and placed them into internment camps. Most of these people were only given 48 hours to gather their

POW’s were made to feel invisible by having no contact home,feeling like they lost their dignity,and being beaten and starved. The Japanese put in internment camps were made to feel invisible by they had to leave their houses and other belongings, and disconnected from the outside world. They both resisted the efforts by the POWs never lost their defiance

The Japanese internment camps ruined the lives of the many Japanese-Americans who were involved. On December 7, Japan bombed pearl harbor and killed many Americans. This is what caused the Japanese-American internment camps. Pearl Harbor was a place in Hawaii where American ships were stationed. Japanese planes bombed the fleet and destroyed it. This is significant because it was a big time of racism and discrimination towards Japanese people. It later showed that Americans were wrong and changed the way people looked at Japanese-Americans. It also caused America to enter World War II. The Japanese internment camps of World War II was wrong by the American government and a hard time for the Japanese victims because

Less than minimum wage was their only option, as the Japanese Americans lived in constant fear and never knowing if they would live to see the next day. Each camp over time, began to follow its own routine or schedule, such as, children going to school everyday and adults having jobs, even if the Japanese Americans were only paid $5 (“Japanese- American Internment”). The daily life from afar was not changed much but, up close the day-to-day structure changed tremendously. The traditional structure of the Japanese family was diminished by the informal structure of the camps, families were split apart and the respect for elders slowly disappeared (“Japanese - Behind”). Almost an everyday life of those in the camps completely changed, whether

Imagine your government blaming you for the actions of the race you come from and them ultimately imprisoning you with no remorse. During WWII this situation happened to innocent Japanese Americans out of fear and prejudice. Americans put these innocent citizens in internment camps without solid evidence of them being spies and traitors.By the US acting on fear and prejudice we have damaged and harmed innocent Japanese Americans going against what America stands for and what is right.

It all started in The United States, during World War 2. Over 127,000 United States citizens were imprisoned. There Only Crime was, being of Japanese ancestry. This is known as a Japanese—American Internment Camp. Where they kept many in stables and abandon horse tracks, because they kept taking more and more people. This Generation should never forget about this, for many reasons. The main reason is because it shows us how much freedom we have today. For example those 127,000 were kept because they were suspected of remaining loyal to their ancestral land. The honest truth is 90% of those people never went to japan. So they were free Americans, and still had taken and imprisoned. Just to show how the world is today. We should never take anything granted. So many lives were lost because of false discrimination.

The decision to relocate Japanese-Americans to internment camps during World War II was an impurity in the United States’ reputation for maintaining democracy and individual rights. When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor during World War II, great hysteria spread through the United States, urging President Roosevelt to pass the now infamous Executive Order 9066, ordering the removal of all people of Japanese-American descent. More than 100,000 people were displaced and their lives were changed forever (Tremayne). The tragedies that these people suffered bring into question the reasoning behind the order and its constitutionality. Challenges were made to the constitutionality of the order in cases such as Korematsu vs. the United States that were ruled down. With hindsight bias, the immorality of Executive Order 9066 seems obvious, yet many at the time strongly felt that the right decision had taken place (“Personal Justice Denied”). The circumstances of war made the lines of morality blurry, distorting the decisions made. The Japanese American Relocation was an act of racism more than an act of protection, and was motivated primarily by a fear of foreign people.

December 7, 1941, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and immediately there was distrust for people living in the United States with japanese ancestry. Most Americans at the time felt holding them in captivity was the best option for their safety. Although, their only crime was that they had Japanese ancestry and they were suspected of being loyal to their homeland of Japan. The relocation into internment in my opinion was not at all a bad or an unethical thing. As americans we were trying to ensure that everyone would be safe and stable.

On December 7th, 1941 Japan bombed Pearl Harbour, "a date which will live in infamy"(http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5166/), sending America into a widespread panic, and anger. This day is what caused us to do something that no one would of thought we would ever do. We created internment camps here in America after signing executive order 9066, which authorized the relocation of all Japanese here in the US to those dreaded internment camps. The conditions were bad but not as bad as they were in Germany where millions of Jews died. After the war the remaining internees were freed to go rebuild their lives, during their captivity they were many legal cases against the Japanese internment, but fear overcame what was right.

Reason 2- Another reason that the concentration camps and Japanese Internment camps are completely different is because the motive behind creating the camps was incompareable. Japanese internment camps were created because the United States was scared of connections Japanese Americans might have to the enemy, and the feared for the safety of the country. On the contrary, concentration camps were created out because of Hitler’s pure hatred for the jews. “When Hell asked Hitler what he intended doing if he ever had full freedom of action against the Jews, his response was:"If I am ever really in power, the destruction of the Jews will be my first and most important job. As soon as I have power, I shall have gallows after gallows erected, for example, in Munich on the Marienplatz-as many of them as traffic allows. Then the Jews will be hanged one after another, and they will stay hanging until they stink. They will stay hanging as long as hygienically possible. As soon as they are untied, then the next group will follow and that will continue until the last Jew in Munich is exterminated. Exactly the same procedure will be followed in other cities until Germany is cleansed of the last Jew!" (quoted in John Toland, Adolf Hitler. London: Book Club Associates, 1977, p.116); A quote from Adolf Hitler on his plan to

Japanese Internment Camps and Nazi Concentration Camps are essentially the same thing because both Jews and Japanese Americans had their rights taken away, they were discriminated, and they were dehumanized. WWII was a bad time period for America but we made it through. There are not as many ways for the camps to be different than the