Japanese Internment Camps In The United States

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Japanese Americans were transported under military guard to 17 temporary assembly centers located at racetracks, fairgrounds, and similar facilities in Washington, Oregon, California, and Arizona. Then they were moved to one of 10 hastily built relocation centers. By November, 1942, the relocation was complete.
During World War II the U.S. put Japanese Americans in an array of the 10 different Internment Camps which were Called “relocation centers”. These Internment camps were built in remote deserts, plains, and swamps of seven states; Arizona(2), Arkansas(2), California(2), Colorado(1), Idaho(1), Utah(1), and Wyoming(1). The reason for the U.S. to put the Japanese Americans in these camps was because of the attack at pearl harbour by the

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