With the bombing of Pearl Harbor and free of attacks from within, the USA launch internment camps, which were mandatory temporary housing for Japanese-Americans. The fear of another blindside attack blinded the US from what they were doing. Ushistory.org say in their article Japanese-American Internment that “The camps were often too cold in the winter and too hot in the summer. The food was mass produced army-style grub. And the interns knew that if they tried to flee, armed sentries who stood watch around the clock, would shoot them” (Japanese-American Internment). Sound familiar? However, the reaction of the citizens was overall and a resounding sense of relief. Americans felt safer not seeing Japanese-Americans around their town. There were 10 camps in total on the west coast, and the camps were opened for two and a half years. Years later,1988, and to no real avail except in an attempt to clear the history books of this black past, Congress signed an order to pay $20,000 to any survivor of the
With the bombing of Pearl Harbor and free of attacks from within, the USA launch internment camps, which were mandatory temporary housing for Japanese-Americans. The fear of another blindside attack blinded the US from what they were doing. Ushistory.org say in their article Japanese-American Internment that “The camps were often too cold in the winter and too hot in the summer. The food was mass produced army-style grub. And the interns knew that if they tried to flee, armed sentries who stood watch around the clock, would shoot them” (Japanese-American Internment). Sound familiar? However, the reaction of the citizens was overall and a resounding sense of relief. Americans felt safer not seeing Japanese-Americans around their town. There were 10 camps in total on the west coast, and the camps were opened for two and a half years. Years later,1988, and to no real avail except in an attempt to clear the history books of this black past, Congress signed an order to pay $20,000 to any survivor of the