Japanese-American+Internment

=Japanese-American Internment=

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Japanese - American Internment was created when Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 in 1942. This ordered all military to "round up" 100,00 Japanese - Americans. They were forced to give up jobs, homes, and businesses. Japanese - Americans were forced to be imprisoned for up to 4 years. In that time, they had to live in bleak relocation camps. Some died from inadequate medical care and mental stress from being separated from family members.=====

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The main reason for these innocent people were because the United States government was **afraid** of espionage. Another reason they only imprisoned the Japanese was because they were easily spotted out because of physical features. Americans and Japanese are very different, not like the Germans who are relatively similar in their skin color, and facial features. It took the United States 57 years to make an apology to the Japanese - Americans and pay them back for the money that was lost.=====



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After Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the United States was in a state of panic. They did not know if their would be another attack and if the war was going to spreading to the USA. That is when the United States got a sense of fear toward the Japanese. In result, was Japanese - American Internment. This kind of connects to the Salem Witch hunts. But instead of hanging people for their "wrong doings" they put them in relocation camps. Similar hysteria's were the German - Jew Internment during WWII. Even though we didn't go to the extreme of building death camps, we intern did something similar to Germany and Adolf Hitler. Another big reason Japanese- American were relocated was because of how the media perceive Japanese and Pearl Harbor. Especially with the political cartoons, it just added to the hysteria of Pearl Harbor. As a society we can make a difference by protesting and speaking our opinions on racism and segregation.=====