Japanese-American Internment Camps

Japanese-American Internment Camps

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Background

Japan and America were major rivals before the start of World War 2

Pearl Harbor

• Pearl Harbor was a U.S. Naval Base in Hawaii

• On December 7th 1941, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor

• The attack killed over 2,400 Americans and destroyed 21 ships and 300 planes.

• The next day the U.S. declared war on Japan

Multiple Choice

Where is Pearl Harbor?

• Germany

• China

• Hawaii

• The Atlantic Ocean

Multiple Choice

After the attack on Pearl Harbor America entered World War 2

• True

• False

Open Ended

How would you feel if you were arrested and detained (and could not go back home) for a crime someone who looked like you committed?

What would be your thoughts, feelings, and actions, as you are being detained?

U.S. Fears

• Many Americans along with the military feared Japanese Americans might be acting as spies helping Japan attack the U.S.

• However, the FBI did not consider them a threat

Executive Order 9066

Franklin D. Roosevelt signed it in 1942

The order forced Japanese-Americans to move from there homes to internment camps

The camps were military zones , where people lived in prison-like surrondings.

Multiple Choice

Which president signed Executive Order 9066?

• Herbert Hoover

• Barack Obama

• George W.Bush

• Franklin Roosevelt

Executive Order 9066

• The Executive Order violated Japanese Americans human and constitutional rights.

• However, the Supreme Court upheld it as law

Multiple Choice

Executive Order 9066

• violated African Americans constitutional rights

• was not a violation of Japanese Americans constitutional rights

• The Supreme Court did not uphold Executive 9066

• violated Japanese Americans human and constitutional rights

Japanese-American Internment

• Nearly all Japanese Americans lived on the West Coast

• Ten internment camps were set up in 6 western states

• 120,000 Japanese Americans were forced into the camps

Multiple Choice

How many interment camps were there?

• eleven

• eight

• six

• ten

Multiple Choice

Based on what we covered so far you can say Internment means

• the imprisonment of people, or groups of people without being charged for a crime.

• the execution of someone that has committed war crimes.

• the release of someone that has been accused of a crime.

Japanese American

• Families were forced to sell belongings they could not carry to the camp

• Business men and women had to sell their businesses in a matter of days or weeks

The Camps

• Surronded by barbed wire and towers with watch guards

• Families slept on cots and shared bathrooms with other internees

• Guards were ordered to shoot residents who tried to escape

Japanese Americans inside the camps

• Established schools

• Churches

• Newspapers

• Farms

• Sporting activties

Open Ended

Given the circumstances of the war, do you think the U.S. government was justified (right) in interning Japanese Americans? Explain your opinion