Japanese Camps
Japanese Internment Camp
Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which permitted the military to circumvent the constitutional safeguards of American citizens in the name of national defense.Over 127,000 United States citizens were imprisoned during World War II. What did they do wrong? Well they were of Japanese ancestry.
Despite the lack of any concrete evidence, Japanese Americans were suspected of remaining loyal to their ancestral land. Anti-Japanese paranoia increased because of a large Japanese presence on the West Coast. In the event of a Japanese invasion of the American mainland, Japanese Americans were feared as a security risk.
On February 19, 1942, Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which forced all Japanese-Americans, to be gathered up and be all sent to the west coast regardless of loyalty or citizenship. No comparable order applied to Hawaii, one-third of whose population was Japanese-American, or to Americans of German and Italian ancestry. Ten internment camps were created throughout the west coast. These camps were set up in the following states: California, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Wyoming, Colorado, and Arkansas. Each one of these camps would eventually holding 120,000 people. Many were forced to sell their property at a severe loss before departure. Social problems were probably the biggest impact to the people that were interned in these camps. The older Issei (immigrants) were deprived of their traditional respect when their children, the Nisei (American-born), were alone permitted authority positions within the camps. 5,589 Nisei renounced their American citizenship, although a federal judge later ruled that renunciations made behind barbed wire were void. Some 3,600 Japanese-Americans were entered into the armed forces from the camps, and 22,000 others who lived in Hawaii or outside the relocation zone were also entered into the armed forces. The
Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which permitted the military to circumvent the constitutional safeguards of American citizens in the name of national defense.Over 127,000 United States citizens were imprisoned during World War II. What did they do wrong? Well they were of Japanese ancestry.
Despite the lack of any concrete evidence, Japanese Americans were suspected of remaining loyal to their ancestral land. Anti-Japanese paranoia increased because of a large Japanese presence on the West Coast. In the event of a Japanese invasion of the American mainland, Japanese Americans were feared as a security risk.
On February 19, 1942, Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which forced all Japanese-Americans, to be gathered up and be all sent to the west coast regardless of loyalty or citizenship. No comparable order applied to Hawaii, one-third of whose population was Japanese-American, or to Americans of German and Italian ancestry. Ten internment camps were created throughout the west coast. These camps were set up in the following states: California, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Wyoming, Colorado, and Arkansas. Each one of these camps would eventually holding 120,000 people. Many were forced to sell their property at a severe loss before departure. Social problems were probably the biggest impact to the people that were interned in these camps. The older Issei (immigrants) were deprived of their traditional respect when their children, the Nisei (American-born), were alone permitted authority positions within the camps. 5,589 Nisei renounced their American citizenship, although a federal judge later ruled that renunciations made behind barbed wire were void. Some 3,600 Japanese-Americans were entered into the armed forces from the camps, and 22,000 others who lived in Hawaii or outside the relocation zone were also entered into the armed forces. The