Japanese Containment in WW2

Japanese Internment
During World War II

By: Krithika M., Abby C., Mridhula P.

Pearl Harbor

Japanese
Internment

Government
Justification

Attorney General Francis Biddle

Secretary of War Henry Stimson

​https://youtu.be/O-iVxs2xuYc?t=81

Multiple Select

What were the main reasons behind president Roosevelt signing Executive order 9066? (CHOOSE TWO ANSWERS)

• Economic concerns

• Military pressure for public safety

• Legal necessity

• Public demand for action

Treatment in
the Camps

https://youtu.be/yogXJl9H9z0

(Up to 1:30)

Multiple Select

Why weren't German-Americans and Italian Americans as persecuted as Japanese Americans? (CHOOSE TWO ANSWERS)

• German-Americans and Italian-Americans were actually more persecuted than Japanese Americans

• German Americans and Italian Americans were eligible to be American citizens but Japanese Americans/Asians were not.

• German Americans and Italian Americans bribed the government to leave them alone and avoided contact.

• Pearl Harbor had caused distrust towards Japanese Americans because it was a direct attack from Japan

Multiple Choice

Why were Dorothea Lang's photographs kept hidden by the Government?

• The government wasn't satisfied with the quality of the photos.

• Dorothea Lang requested the government to hide them until 2006.

• The photos revealed the harsh conditions of the internment camps and painted the government in a bad light.

• She captured the wrong subjects, so there was no reason to document the photos.

Poll

Did you like our presentation :)

• yes

• yes

• of course

• maybe not :(

Sources

●https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/japanese-american-incarceration#:~:text=Virtually%20
all%20Japanese%20Americans%20were,constitutional%20rights%20of%20Japanese%20Americans.

●https://americanhistory.abc-clio.com/Search/Display/295250?terms=Pearl+Harbor&sType=quick

●https://americanhistory.abc-clio.com/Search/Display/292532

●https://americanhistory.abc-clio.com/Search/Display/767023?terms=World+War+II&sType=quick

●https://www.sgvtribune.com/2017/02/18/it-wasnt-just-japanese-americans-germans-and-italians-were-im
pacted-by-wwii-executive-order-9066-too/

●https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/immigration/japanese/behind-the-wire/