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    Japanese internment camp VS. concentration camps By Macey Hotz Internment: the state of being confined as a prisoner, especially for political or military reasons. Executive order: Executive Order 9066 was a United States presidential executive order signed and issued during World War II by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942. Some may say that Concentration camps seem the same to Internment camps but this argument is misleading because there are more differences

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    Japanese Interment The two videos talk about how President Roosevelt assigned an order to authorize the military to relocate the Japanese and their American born children from their homes and take them to a relocation camp. The fist video talks about the Government point of view in what they wanted, others to see and hear. The government thought the Japanese people were a threat toward the American people they thought the Japanese’s too close to their location like the enable air base, oil

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    clearly shown during world war II with the japanese internment. Many americans after pearl harbor, became very hostile to all japanese and began to place the blame on the japanese. In Chapter 25 Document 1: “President Roosevelt Requests Declaration of War on Japan”. This document states “ I ask that the congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by japan on Sunday, December 7, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese Empire”(pg 188).

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    I came the Japanese American National Museum on a Saturday afternoon and the admission was 10 dollar. First of all, I am not Japanese, but I felt a connection when I was browsing around the museum. So start from Left to Right to see everything in chronological order. There are a few rooms full of photo, costumes, and Objects. The exhibit that was on display was focused on World War II internment camps. It was fun to see pictures of Los Angeles and Hawaii from the 1930-1960’s. The black and whites

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    The relocation and imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II has been and always will be a dark stain in American History. Due to America’s lingering racism and prejudices, many of our fellow Americans had to experience an ordeal that no other American should ever have to face. They lost their homes, businesses, land and more importantly, their freedoms, during a moment of time that was filled with resentment, mistrust, fear and hatred towards a fellow man (American) that was just as

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    1941, Japan hit the U.S. naval base in the pacific ocean with bombs, crippling the U.S. 20,000 U.S. citizens with Japanese ancestors were locked up for over 3 years. Children, parents, grandparents were put into internment camps, later relocated to Santa Anita Racetrack (Lewis 7). There were many causes that created this “grave injustice,” but along the way there were also opportunities to avert the abuse of rights. In the 1900’s and prior, many non-white individuals faced discrimination and racism

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