Hancock U.S. History 1302 Wednesday 1800-2100 15 October 2008 After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941‚ the United States was filled with panic. Along the Pacific coast of the U.S.‚ where residents feared more Japanese attacks on their cities‚ homes‚ and businesses‚ this feeling was especially great. During the time preceding World War II‚ there were approximately 112‚000 persons of Japanese descent living in California‚ Arizona‚ and coastal Oregon and Washington. These
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the Japanese army on Pearl Harbor in 1941‚ Canada and the United States felt very threatened. The two countries were unsure about what the enemy was planning‚ and they wanted to protect their citizens from any future attacks. As a result of this‚ the Canadian government started to view their Japanese citizens as a threat to national security. As the war progressed‚ the government eventually decided to confine all Japanese-Canadians to British Columbia until the fighting was over. The Japanese had
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Look at Japanese Internment of WWII To start off‚ the definition of internment is the imprisonment or confinement of people‚ commonly in large groups‚ without trial. (The Oxford English Dictionary[->0] 1989) Japanese Americans in 1942 were taken to internment camps during WWII because of suspicions of their allegiance and dedication to the United States. Any Japanese American regardless of citizenship status was incarcerated. In early 1943 a loyalty questionare was issued within the camps. If the
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Japanese Internment During World War II in February of 1942 President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066‚ demanding that all Japanese-Americans be relocated to internment camps (www.ushistory.org). The federal government gave many different reasons as to why the internment of American citizens of Japanese descent during World War II was justifiable. Although their reasons may seem valid considering the circumstances of World War II‚ they were not. The internment was an unjustifiable violation
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“I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps” (George Takei). Japanese internment was a result of the Pearl Harbor bombing. The bombing of Pearl Harbor occurred just before 8:00 a.m. on December 7th‚ 1941. The Japanese bombed the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu Hawaii on the island of Oahu. The Japanese bombing left more than 2‚000 American soldiers and sailors dead and 1‚000 wounded. The bombing nearly destroyed 20 naval vessels‚ including eight
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Despite the question of morality raised by the japanese internment camps‚ the United States government was completely justified in the relocation of the japanese-American citizens given the situation the entire country was placed in during World War II. Critics of the japanese interment must take into consideration the dire position the United States was caught in after the bombing of Pearl Harbor had recently taken place. A number of Japanese-Americans located on the west coast were later discovered
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The decision to imprison Japanese Americans was a popular one in 1942. It was supported not only by the government‚ but it was also called for by the press and the people. In the wake of the bombing of Pearl Harbor‚ Hawaii‚ on December 7‚ 1941‚ Japan was the enemy. Many Americans believed that people of Japanese Ancestry were potential spies and saboteurs‚ intent on helping their mother country to win World War II. "The Japanese race is an enemy race‚" General John DeWitt‚ head of the Western
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by the Japanese. This led to the wrongful and unjust internment of innocent Japanese Americans. Families were split and torn apart‚ business were let go‚ and homes were lost. All because “Americans” were afraid and made wrong judgments and let emotions play into their decisions. Americans believed that Japanese Americans were dangerous. For example a quote from Congressman Rankin states‚ “These Japs who had been here for generations were making signs‚ if you please‚ guiding the Japanese planes
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The decision to begin a Japanese internment was initiated because of the distrust people felt towards Japanese after the attack on Pearl Harbor. This was their first military involvement in the war‚ and before Pearl Harbor the war probably seemed like something far away that wouldn’t include the United States in battle. When the first affects of Pearl Harbor started to wear off‚ people become wary of the Japanese. Naturally‚ the Americans felt a distrust towards them after the government from their
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after the war… Japanese had it easier their camps were less brutal than the Jewish Concentration camps. Also‚ Jewish Concentration camps were more guarded and higher standardized than the Japanese Internment camps.. Jews were forced to do jobs or they had punishment‚ Japanese weren’t forced to work they could volunteer. Jewish concentration camps and Japanese Internment camps weren’t the same because Jewish camps were more Brutal than Japanese‚ Jews lives weren’t cared about in the camps and they were
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