Japanese Internment Camps During World War II

The bombing of Pearl Harbor devastated the United States on December 7, 1941 and the country immediately entered World War ll. After the bombing, the American citizens were uneasy because they believed that the Japanese people in America were behind the attack and that they were going to harm them in their own country. To fix this problem, Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 creating Internment camps. Within two months the first internment camp opened and they continued to operate until 1945, nearly two years later. In the Japanese Internment camps, the Japanese Immigrants were kept in the camps by a fence with barbed wire and the soldiers were armed with guns and weapons. The children had to attend new schools, adapt to uncomfortable environments and pass time, but the internment camps weren’t like concentration camps because the Japanese weren’t shot or killed, or forced into labor. However, Japanese internment camps were not necessary to protect the American citizens. …show more content…
60,000 children that were taken away from their lives and moved into camps. Children were not educated enough to create a bomb and communicate with people in Japan overseas as long or as well as Americans. They couldn’t communicate with people in Japan because it was overseas and they weren’t born in America. During 1941, the Japanese Americans did not have as many rights as the Americans because they were immigrants. The reason that Japanese Americans moved to America was because they wanted freedom and better jobs to make money for their families. Also, America did not have as many attacks as other countries did. America came into WWI during April 06, 1917 and the war began in July 28, 1914. America was not in the war as long as other countries so the immigrants thought it was completely