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Japanese Internment Camps

Background Information:
- (1940) About 120,000 Japanese-
   Americans were living on the West
   Coast out of 127,000 in the U.S.
- 1/3 were born in Japan and in some
   states couldn't
       - own land
       - be naturalized as citizens
       - vote
- The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on
   December 7, 1941

Who: Japanese-Americans
What: They were relocated to multiple
camps all over the U.S.
When: February 19, 1942 (President
Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066)
Where: Internment Camps
Why: The people in the U.S., as well as
the President, were afraid of security
risks and that the Japanese-Americans
would try to sabotage the war efforts.

Executive Order 9066
- Forced all Japanese-Americans to
evacuate the West Coast
- Didn't apply to people in Hawaii, or to
Americans with German or Italian
ancestry
- Ten Internment Camps were set up in
- California, Idaho, Utah, Arizona,
Wyoming, Colorado, and Arkansas
- They eventually held 120,000 people

Inside the
- Prison-like compounds surrounded by
barbed wire
- Slept in barracks with no running
water, ate in mass halls, armed guards
surrounding with snipers
- Students went to school, adults were
given jobs (farming)
- March 1946 was the last camp closed.

A 1948 Japanese American Redress law
signed by Ronald Reagan provided
reimbursement for property losses by those
interned. In 1988, Congress awarded
restitution payments of twenty thousand
dollars to each survivor of the camps; it is
estimated that about 73,000 persons will
eventually receive this compensation for the
violation of their liberties. One-hundred-seven-
year-old Rev. Mamoru Eto of Los Angeles was
the first to receive his check.

U.S. Entry Into WWII

Background Information:
- WWII began September 1, 1939
- Axis
    - Germany
    - Italy
    - Japan
    - Hungary
    - Romania
    - Bulgaria
- Helped Start the war
    - Japan's victory over Czar ruled Russia
    - US plans for naval war with Japan
    - The Great Depression
    - Major leaps in technology
    - Germany attacked Poland
- Allies
    - Britain
    - France
    - USSR
    - Australia
    - Belgium
    - Brazil
    - Canada
    - China
    - Denmark
    - Greece
    - Netherlands
    - New Zealand
    - Norway
    - Poland
    - South Africa
    - Yugoslavia
    - (later) the US

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