The Life of Japanese-Americans after the Pearl Harbor Attack

DBQ Essay (Roosevelt-Defense) In the morning of December 7, 1941 during World War 2 Pearl Harbor was attacked by Imperial Japan. This attack brought the U.S. into the war officially. Many feared that Japanese-Americans could be spies and racist attacks began for all Asian minorities. The U.S. government moved thousands of Japanese-Americans living in the Pacific Coast into internment camps inland. The Japanese-Americans lived in the camps for a majority of the war. In the camps they were fed, had places to sleep, children were educated. Life continued for the Japanese Americans. After Pearl Harbor Japanese-Americans faced discrimination and in order to protect other U.S. citizens and them, Roosevelt moved them into internment camps. Roosevelt put Japanese-Americans into internment camps for multiple reasons. Those who oppose Roosevelt are wrong. In December 7, 1941 Imperial Japan dropped a bomb on Pearl Harbor. This brought Japan into the war and brought a negative reaction towards Japanese-American in the U.S. Japanese-Americans was moved from the Pacific Coast into concentration camps. In Document 1 it shows pictures of one of the internment camps in which the Japanese-Americans were sent to. One of the pictures shows many Japanese people behind a fence and the other shows the rows of houses the Japanese lived in. The fence is to keep the Japanese-Americans safe and intruders who may want to hurt them out. And the houses depicted, in which they lived in, quite nice actually. In Document 8 it shows the layout for the internment camps in which the Japanese-Americans stayed at. After Pearl Harbor many Japanese-Americans faced discrimination. Many citizens of America feared that the Japanese would send Japanese spies into America. This brought a lot of racial discrimination against Japanese-Americans. They were treated like enemy aliens and the discrimination they faced was insane. People were telling them to go back to Japan, even though many were even 3rd or