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    concentration camps by the end of world war II.Some information about the two camps are. The Japanese got homes, food, and medical care.The Jews were killed and slaughtered.They also got little food and water.The Jot killed but only died of natural causes.The japanese internment camps and German internment camps are not the same thing because the Japanese were not killed, the Americans did it out of fear, and the Japanese still had some freedoms. The first reason that Internment and…

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    Internment camps vs concentration camps Did you ever know or realize how internment camps and concentration camps were so alike and different at the same time. In this article i'm going to explain these main differences and similarities. The japanese internment camps(united states concentration camps) were held during world war two, to keep the japanese americans in one place during the bombing of pearl harbor. They stored between 110,000 to 120,000 japanese people in the camps. President…

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    Who was the reason for this devastating attack? Japan. To a distraught nation, pointing fingers seemed the easiest option. And thus, the Japanese Internment camps began. Seemingly a good idea at the time, the American people did not yet know these camps would cause even greater suffering and pain. Japanese Internment camps left permanent marks on those of Japanese descent, both during and after their enactment. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, a great deal of fear coursed through America.…

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    American prisoners of war, Japanese-Americans, and the Japanese in Hiroshima all suffered during World War Two. The American POWs were starved and beaten. Japanese Americans were forced from their homes to live in internment camps. Japanese in Hiroshima had a bomb dropped on them and their lives destroyed. Civil War Union General William Tecumseh Sherman stated "War is Cruelty." This quote applies to the Pacific Front of WWII because the American POWs, Japanese-Americans, and Japanese citizens…

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    the world know about concentration camps and Internment camps. Concentration and Internment camps were apart of the World War II and they served as a place which kept their kind away from the rest of the population. Japanese and Jewish people weren’t accepted in places such as stores and streets, people thought of the removal of them; Jewish people got placed into camps which were located in Germany and other places in Europe. Jewish people in concentration camps faced traumatizing events such…

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    World War II or otherwise known as the good war. While this war did do a lot of good by liberating the Jewish people from concentration camps it was also the reason for Japanese internment camps. By having these internment camps, America was on its way to becoming the next Germany. The war ended the holocaust and the depression but the countless lives that it took, especially in Japan, was devastating. The good doesn’t outweigh the bad. Women were encouraged to get jobs for the first…

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    one can argue that the Japanese were ultimately more vicious toward the Allied Powers than the Nazis. The Nazis were very severe in the ways that they dealt with the Jewish people. For example, the Night of Broken Glass, also known as Kristallnacht, was a very influential example of Nazi hatred toward the Jewish people. Many Jewish families were ripped from their homes, with no explanation to what…

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    Yes the United States justified in its policy of keeping Japanese Americans in internment camps during World War II?The United States didn’t want anything to happen to the Japanese Americans during World War II.So they move the Japanese Americans to the internment camps because they didn’t want anything to happened to the children during this time they want to keep them safe.They also had to leave they from town to the United States because they went to war.They also wanted to get it over with…

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    what Japanese Americans were facing at the time. They were being accused of something they didn’t do, but for something their country did. For this reason Japanese Americans were put in internment camps. Internment camps were camps set up by the government to put all the people of Japanese ancestry. The U.S. took 115,000 Japanese Americans into these highly secured camps. These camps, forced people to leave their homes and be placed under surveillance. Japanese Americans were placed in camps for…

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    nation's fear with Japanese attacks. Roosevelt came up with the Executive Order 9066 which authorized the relocation of anyone with Japanese ancestry or who descend from Japan. About 120,000 Japanese people were put in one of the ten internment camps that were located in California, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Wyoming, Colorado, and Arkansas. The ten internment camps are; Colorado River (Poston) Internment Camp, Arizona, Gila River Internment Camp, Phoenix, Arizona, Jerome Internment Camp,…

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