Japanese Internment in WWII
The Internment of Japanese Americans is a big part of American history, it was a terrible thing that the United states government did and caused harm to many innocent people. But, before we can judge if it was a bad thing that the government did or a good thing we must first take a in depth look at this part of history. In order to understand Japanese internment it is necessary to examine Japanese Americans’ lives before,during and after internment: what they dealt with, how it affected them, and how they moved on?
Pearl Harbor is not the sole reason why we chose the Japanese Americans over German Americans for internment, they were other factors at play. We chose them because of the prejudice that traditional
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The establishing of the camps were issued by Franklin Roosevelt’s executive order 9066 which from 1942 to 1945 it was policy of the U.S Government that all people of Japanese descent to be moved and interned in isolated camps (internment camps). This executive order was enacted after the devastating attack on pearl harbor and the ensuing war with Japan. The executive order 9066 was established on February 19, 1942 with the intention of preventing espionage on American shores and the overall well being of the country. Military zones were created in California, Washington, and Oregon these states are with large Japanese populations, the order commanded relocation of Japanese Americans, this order affected the lives of 117,000 people the majority of these affected people were Japanese american citizens. Other countries did exactly what the united states did, the biggest one being Canada when they relocated 21,000 of their Japanese citizens from their west coast. Weeks before executive order 9066 was put into motion the United States Navy removed Japanese citizens from Terminal Island which is near the port of Los Angeles, and on December 7th 1941 just hours after the happenings of pearl harbor the Federal Bureau of investigation or more commonly called the FBI rounded up 1,291 japanese community and religious leaders arresting …show more content…
This rating was high, particularly when compared to the national average of 28:1. Educational staff rarely exceeded five women and seven men in a basic school system that enrolled 1,774 pupils.
Many internment camps had multiple schools to educate the numerous children detained there. Often entire blocks of barracks were converted for grade school classrooms, but they were ‘prison-esque’ blocks that contained few windows.
When there was no learning or working going on there was sports
In conclusion, overall this was a horrible event in American history, it involved lot’s of racial prejudice and the misuse of federal power. Hopefully the american government will learn from their mistake and never due this dastardly act again. In order to understand Japanese internment it is was necessary to examine Japanese Americans’ lives before,during and after internment: what they dealt with, how it affected them, and how they moved
Japanese Internment Camps- Rough Draft A nice day, Feb 20, 1942 then out of nowhere 20,000 Japanese Americans kicked out of there homes into horror camps, Internment Camps. At the time Japanese Internment camps where a good idea.
Japanese Internment: Why did it occur? How did it affect Japanese-Americans? Following the start of World War II and due to bad advice and popular opinion, President Roosevelt's executive order 9066 went into effect. This order began the marshalling of over 100,000 Japanese Americans into internment camps.
The Executive Order 9066 is where the order for the internment camps originated from. It shows how the American government addressed the Japanese-Americans living in the United States. At first everyone including the President defended the Japanese living in the United States until the Niihau incident where two Hawaiian born with Japanese ethnics helped and aided a downed pilot that assisted in the attacks of Pearl Harbor. After that the fear of Espionage became a huge concern and the racially motivated crimes and discrimination against the Japanese-American’s, is why the Executive Order 9006 was signed and enforced. The order forced 120,000 Japanese-Americans with most of them being American citizens to leave their homes, businesses and American constitutional rights behind and spend the war years behind barbed wire (By, 1988).
On December 7, 1941, Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii causing the United States to enter World War II. Soon after, President D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 approving the removal of any and all civilians from “military areas” to prevent any acts of espionage from being committed. Over 100,000 persons of Japanese ancestry, two-thirds being American born citizens, living in the West coast were forcibly sent to internment camps. The U.S. government released a film discussing how the relocation was accomplished. However, the video blatantly disregards the true personal effects and conditions of the Japanese-American WWII relocation.
I, personally, agree with those who say that the internment of Japanese-American citizens was unnecessary and immoral. It’s never okay to force citizens to abandon all their land, jobs, belongings (etc.) and make them live in an internment camp based solely on their racial background, religion, etc. It’s a violation of their civil liberties and first amendment rights. And above all stated in the previous sentence, the internment of Japanese-Americans in the 1940’s was just unethical and
The internment of Japanese-Americans was justified because there were Japanese suspects. Between ten internment camps in Arizona, California, Idaho, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, and Arkansas, about 250-300 people in each camp were suspects under surveillance. Only around 50-60 people were actually considered dangerous. “It is easy to get on the suspect list, merely a speech in favor of Japan being sufficient to land one there” (Munson 2). Clearly, America was taking extreme precautions.
Mary Matsuda Gruenewald tells her tale of what life was like for her family when they were sent to internment camps in her memoir “Looking like the Enemy.” The book starts when Gruenewald is sixteen years old and her family just got news that Pearl Harbor was bombed by the Japan. After the bombing Gruenewald and her family life changed, they were forced to leave their home and go to internment camps meant for Japanese Americans. During the time Gruenewald was in imprisonment she dealt with the struggle for survival both physical and mental. This affected Gruenewald great that she would say to herself “Am I Japanese?
Family #19788 The memoir Looking like the Enemy, was written by Mary Matsuda Gruenewald. Set during World War II after the attack upon Pearl Harbor. The Japanese Americans living in Western part of America had a since of betrayal and fear having to evacuate their homes and enter into internment camps.
After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the Japanese Internment Camps were built during World War Two. The internment began in early 1942 and lasted until the war's end in 1945. Over 120,000 Japanese Americans were forcibly removed from their homes and imprisoned in internment camps by the United States government during WWII. Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, which caused widespread fear and discrimination against Japanese Americans, several camps were built. Even though the fact that a large percentage of Japanese Americans were US citizens and presented no threat to national security, the US administration justified internment as a necessary action to prevent spies and sabotage by Japanese Americans.
The internment of Japanese Americans during WWII was not justified. After Pearl Harbor, many Americans were scared of the Japanese Americans because they could sabotage the U.S. military. To try and solve the fear President Franklin D Roosevelt told the army in Executive order 9066 to relocate all Japanese Americans living on the West Coast. They were relocated to detention centers in the desert. Many of them were in the detention centers for three years.
When put into the Japanese Internment Camps, Japanese-Americans were held at gunpoint and forced to leave their homes. After they were released from the camps, Japanese-Americans didn’t have a home to go back to. Not to mention the fact that the Nazi Concentration Camps left survivors mentally damaged and some mentally and physically disabled while the Japanese Internment Camps left survivors in a stable condition. In the Nazi Concentration Camps, prisoners were used as test subjects and those who did survive were left mentally or physically disabled. Even then,
How would you feel if one day you were told to leave your whole life behind to live in captivity just because people halfway across the world did something wrong? This horror story was all too true for the thousands of Japanese Americans alive during World War II. Almost overnight, thousands of proud Japanese Americans living on the west coast were forced to leave their homes and give up the life they knew. The United States government was not justified in the creation of Japanese internment camps because it stripped law-abiding American citizens of their rights out of unjustified fear.
Japanese Internment Camps - Persuasive Argument On December 7, 1941, Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base located near Pearl Harbor at Honolulu, Hawaii. After the bombing, Japanese Americans were sent off to internment camps due to President Franklin Roosevelt’s decision on releasing Executive Order 9066. Even though the U.S government’s decision was meant to benefit the country’s safety from more attacks by the Japanese, my strong belief is that Executive Order 9066 was not justifiable towards Americans.
December 7th of 1941 America would face a horrific scene in their own homeland, the Japanese would attack Pearl Harbor with their Air Force not once but twice. That same day President John F. Kennedy would decide to place the Japanese Americans, living in the country at the time, in internment camps. The civilians would not have a clue what they would be put up against, now they would have to encounter various obstacles to make sure they would be able to survive. “The camps were prisons, with armed soldiers around the perimeters, barbed wire. and controls over every aspect of life”(Chang).
Japanese internment camps made us question who was really an American and it relates to today’s issues. Internment camps were similar to concentration camps or prison and Japanese-Americans were put into them. Even though they were considered Americans, they were still treated unfairly by other Americans. So who is American?