Those camps along California and parts of other states in the 1940s? They were called “War Relocation Camps”. It’s where they forced 110,000 Japanese-Americans to live there. Oh, by the way, they weren’t actually for war relocation, it was for Japanese Internment. In the 1940s, Japanese-Americans were considered loyal to the United States.
That was until “Japanese naval and air forces attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, bringing the U.S. into World War II.” (Japanese-American Internment, paragraph 1)The Government immediately passed an Executive Order (9066) which allowed military forces to turn areas into restricted places where any alien group can be held. Unfortunately, that group were the …show more content…
“Nutrition, education, and health care were all inadequate. Despite these sub-standard conditions, people did their best to make life in the camps as “normal” as possible..” (Japanese-American Internment, paragraph 4) They created music and art, established schools, farmed, etcetera. In 1943, the government requested volunteers from the camps, and more than 800 men applied. When those Internees were fighting for their home and country, their families were stuck behind fences of barbed wire.
These rules were considered an act of racism since the only people who were being dragged and held in a confined space were the Japanese-Americans, so the internees were set free and given $20,000. The stables some/most temporarily lived in was turned into a mall with a garden as an apology. People today still faced discrimination because of their race or gender, but Japanese Internment was one of the only events that America had apologized for, and that’s probably going to be the only one for
That was until “Japanese naval and air forces attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, bringing the U.S. into World War II.” (Japanese-American Internment, paragraph 1)The Government immediately passed an Executive Order (9066) which allowed military forces to turn areas into restricted places where any alien group can be held. Unfortunately, that group were the …show more content…
“Nutrition, education, and health care were all inadequate. Despite these sub-standard conditions, people did their best to make life in the camps as “normal” as possible..” (Japanese-American Internment, paragraph 4) They created music and art, established schools, farmed, etcetera. In 1943, the government requested volunteers from the camps, and more than 800 men applied. When those Internees were fighting for their home and country, their families were stuck behind fences of barbed wire.
These rules were considered an act of racism since the only people who were being dragged and held in a confined space were the Japanese-Americans, so the internees were set free and given $20,000. The stables some/most temporarily lived in was turned into a mall with a garden as an apology. People today still faced discrimination because of their race or gender, but Japanese Internment was one of the only events that America had apologized for, and that’s probably going to be the only one for