The Beginning of World War II

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, many people were dubious towards many Japanese-Americans and believed they were working with Japan. With this, on February 19, 1942, President Roosevelt signed the Executive Order 9066, moving several Japanese-Americans into concentration camps, calling it a “military necessity” (Ewers 1). When this happened, many Japanese-Americans lost everything they had owned such as houses, farms, and their rights as American citizens.

The relocation of Japanese Americans was an event that occurred within the United States during World War II. On February 19th, 1942, Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which forced all Japanese Americans living in the West Coast to be evacuated from the area and relocated to internment camps all across the United States, where they would be imprisoned. Approximately 120,000 people were sent to the camps and the event lasted through the years 1942 and 1945. The main cause of the relocation and internment of these people was because of fear made among Japanese people after Japan had bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941. Citizens of the United States had been worrying about the possibility of Japanese residents of the country aiding Japan, and/or secretly trying to destroy American companies.

Japanese Americans had to leave the zone by direct and indirect force, and the government passed the law which gave the military authority to move Nisei and Issei (34). Along with that, the Executive Order 9012, passed in March, created the War Relocation Authority (WRA) (35). The WRA’s job was to take charge of the internees after they were moved to the camps (35). The Japanese American Citizen League (JACL) tried to fight against it. However, because it was too young and they were afraid that Americans would think they were really spies if they won’t cooperate, JACL decided to follow WRA (36). Furthermore, in “March 27, DeWitt issued Public Proclamation Number 4 which forced persons of Japanese ancestry to stay in military zone 1 after the end of the month, and on March 27, DeWitt issued Exclusion Order Number 1 in which persons of Japanese ancestry were moved from Washington to camp in Manzanar, California” (37). During the war, there were more than 100 evacuation orders and, through this, the innocent Japanese Americans suffered the consequences (37).

On December 7, 1941 the Japanese empire attacked Pearl Harbor. 2,400 Americans were killed and 1,200 injured. President Franklin D. Roosevelt immediately took action. In February 19, 1942 he signed the executive order 9066. This executive order gave military army’s immense power. They were to take everyone with Japanese ancestry to internment camps were they would be held captive. All of these military areas would exclude all the people of Japanese ancestry, just because they were considered “dangerous”. The Japanese people did not know if they would be imprisoned or deported. They would be imprisoned or deported even if they only had 1/16th of Japanese blood.

On February 19th, 1942 President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. What this order did was authorize the war department to designate military areas and exclude anyone from them who they felt was a danger or a threat. Its specific target without being obvious was Japanese Americans. This was just a little over 2 months after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Over 110,000 Japanese Americans living along the West Coast would soon be ordered to enter Internment Camps. The government had also ordered Italian and German immigrants living in the United States to be sent to the camps as well. According to PBS there was a plan drawn up in Washington to include all 158,000 Japanese people living in Hawaii to be sent to the camps as well. Wealthy land

September 1, 1939, World War II began. For the first two years America did not get involved in the war. America just helped out a couple of the allied countries by giving them weapons. On December 7, 1941, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. There are some theories of why The U.S. got bombed, but America does not know for sure; immediately after the attack Franklin D. Roosevelt (the President of the U.S. during the time) declared war. February of 1942, America put all Japanese, even Japanese-American in internment camps. Due to the political, social, and military threat to the United States all people with Japanese ancestors needed to be interned during World War II.

On February 19, 1942, Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which ripped 122,000 innocent lives out of their homes and shoved them into internment camps. The residents of Japanese ancestry were deemed guilty and suspicious solely based on their ethnicity. Not to mention that they were also feared as a security risk by America. Leaders in California, Oregon, and Washington, demanded the United States to remove them from their homes along the west coast and to be relocated in isolated inland areas. All of this was entirely fueled by America’s war hysteria after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 7, 1941.

During World War II, the 1942 attack by Japan on US base, Pearl Harbor, resulted in the Executive Order 9066. In result of the order the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) evacuated Japanese residents to designated relocation camps governed by the War Relocation Authority (WRA). Many Japanese residents sacrificed they possessions, careers, and even their health to remain as law-abiding citizens even under the questioning of their loyalty. Japanese Americans were considered as threats to national security and became subject to racism and prejudice by the government. Japanese Americans who were moribund or critically ill were allowed to stay in the excluded areas, but even the crippled were forced into the camps. (Jensen, Gwenn M.) Because

74 days after Japan’s attack on the US, President of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt issued the exucutive order no. 9066. The order forced 110,000 Japanese AMeicans were forced to leave their homeds in California, Washington, and Oregon. They were, “sent to 1 of 10 detention camps in desolate parts of the US”. These Japanese Americans charged with a crime against US government. Two-thirds of these Japanese Americans were born in the US, while more than 70% of them were American citizens. President Roosevelt’s action was supported by Congress, and not 1 vote was against this action. It was upheld by the constitution and by the Supreme Court. Deprived of liberty, Japanese Americans were forced into the camps called “relocation centers” that were surrounded by barbed wire and armed soldiers. “Families lived in poorly built, overcrowded, barracks.” The relocation center’s barracks had no running water, heat, privacy, and had to use the public bathrooms. The relocation centers provided medical care, school, and the younger adults could farm, do defense work, go to colledge, or work in the

The Japanese were interned in our country during WWII. The United States justified this as a measure of security against the possibility of spies and saboteurs. The United States feared that those of Japanese ancestry would be spying for the Japanese, or would sabotage war efforts. Japanese warplanes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on December 7th, 1941. By December 8th, the United States declared war on Japan, Germany and their allies. The Japanese attack brought America into World War II. It “outraged Americans and sparked a wave of anti-Japanese sentiment across the country. Many blamed all Japanese for the attack, directing their anger and frustration even at Japanese resident aliens and Japanese-Americans who had done nothing that would bring into question their loyalty to the United States” (Morelock). There was an atmosphere of fear, anger, racial animosity, and uncertainty. President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 two months after the declaration of war. It gave the United States Army the authority to round up Japanese-Americans living on the West Coast and put them in “relocation (internment) camps.” “In the spring of 1942, some 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry were taken from their homes on the West Coast and incarcerated by order of the U.S. government. None had committed any acts of treason or espionage, and there was no evidence that any of them contemplated such activities” (Wax 13). Seventy thousand of them were United States’ citizens.

During World War II many people were afraid which caused them to make rash decisions. World War II was a war between Germany, Italy, and Japan against Britain, France, Canada, and Australia. The United States joined the war because of Japan’s bombing on their naval base. This caused the United States to make rash decisions on the Japanese living in the United States. During World War II, the United States was afraid of the Japanese because of their first attack on the United States.

Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor was the catalyst to the United States of America entering World War II. Not only did the event affect foreign countries, but it also the people within the nation. Japanese Americans were oppressed, forced to sell their belongings and sent to internment camps while the war was underway. Many are aware of the latter, but most do not know why it happened. In February 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued the Executive Order 9066, which ordered the internment of people of Japanese heritage in identified areas. In spite of national security and economic issues partially being the cause of the Executive Order, the most notable was the social and racial attitudes towards the Japanese.

In December of 1941, a US naval base called Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii was bombed by the Japanese. Two years later, we entered World War II. Before we entered the war and two months after the bombings, Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 which called for the exclusion and internment of all Japanese Americans from the West Coast. Roosevelt issued this statement because of the fear that all Japanese Americans might be spies. The Japanese Americans were forced to live in camps that had little electricity and lacked sanitation with little to no privacy. The camp was guarded by shooters in towers that were ordered to shoot anyone who tried to leave the camp and barbed wire fences. This is considered a modern day witch

Just over two months after Japan's surprise attack at Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which gave the U.S. military the ability to designate areas that anyone could be excluded from. Even though the order did not explicitly refer to any particular ethnic or racial group, there was a clear implication of who this order was referring to. During the week the order was released, peole of Japanese descent were ordered to leave their homes in California. Soon, the forced relocation applied to the whole state, as well as much of the rest of the West Coast. Roosevelt signed another order the next month that created an agency to usher anyone of Japanese descent - most of whom were U.S. citizens- to camps

Two months after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which ordered all Japanese-American citizens to relocate. This was primarily because rumors spread, which encouraged race prejudice. Without any solid evidence, Japanese Americans suspected of remaining loyal to their ancestral land (Japan). Anti-Japanese paranoia spread across the nation. People feared that in the event of a Japanese invasion, Japanese-Americans would defend Japan rather than the United States. Consequently, some 120,000 people (who were American citizens) moved unknowingly to one of 10 internment camps across the United