3. Why did the U.S. government imprison Japanese Americans in internment camps during WWII?

Question

I really don't understand... some sites if you have them would be hella awsome

-_-' i want sites not your opinion.. sorry

SITES...... ????????????????

Answer 1

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8420/main.html
http://www.42explore2.com/japanese.htm
http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/rightsandfreedoms/a/eo9066.htm

The last one is the actual Presidential order to inter the Japanese Americans.

Answer 2

Fear.

Even before the war the US was afraid of spies and saboteurs. One of the reasons the attack on Pearl Harbor was such a success was that the planes were all put into big packs in more isolated and open areas. This was to prevent sabotage, but ended up making them easy targets for aerial attack.

They were afraid that the Japanese people in the US would be possible spies or make acts of sabotage.

Bear in mind we didn't put them all in camps. We mostly put those in coastal areas, where they could have more contact from overseas.
We also had a number of them volunteer for the military, they were sent to Europe (just as German Americans were sent to the Pacific).

EDIT

Whatever.

Answer 3

Japanese American internment was the forced removal and internment of approximately 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans (62% of whom were United States citizens) from the West Coast of the United States during World War II. While approximately 10,000 were able to relocate to other parts of the country of their own choosing, the remainder – roughly 110,000 men, women and children – were sent to hastily constructed camps called "War Relocation Centers" in remote portions of the nation's interior.

President Franklin Roosevelt authorized the internment with Executive Order 9066, which allowed local military commanders to designate "military areas" as "exclusion zones", from which "any or all persons may be excluded." This power was used to declare that all people of Japanese ancestry were excluded from the entire Pacific coast, including all of California and most of Oregon and Washington, except for those in internment camps. In 1944, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the exclusion, removal, and detention, arguing that it is permissible to curtail the civil rights of a racial group when there is a "pressing public necessity."

Some compensation for property losses was paid in 1948, but most internees were unable to fully recover their losses. In 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed legislation which apologized for the internment on behalf of the U.S. government. The legislation stated that government actions were based on "race prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership",[6] and beginning in 1990, the government paid reparations to surviving internees.

Answer 4

Here are some sites that may help you...the first one is from Wikipedia...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_American_internment

The 2nd site is from the University of Utah Library, it contains photos of the internment camps...

http://www.lib.utah.edu/spc/photo/9066/9066.htm

The 3rd site is just additional information spoken in everyday language. Sometimes Wikipedia reads too much like an encyclopedia.

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/internment1.html

Hope this helps.

Answer 5

they were concerned that they would send information back to japan regarding the US position and news of its efforts during the war. the US was afraid of having internal spies, if you will. here are some links:

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/internment1.html

http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/index.html

http://www.historyonthenet.com/WW2/japan_internment_camps.htm

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8420/main.html

http://classes.maxwell.syr.edu/soc248/JapaneseIntern.html

http://www.42explore2.com/japanese.htm

Answer 6

for the same reason we imprisoned german familys over here in the uk .... the potential threat ..... and Fear

Answer 7

For the same reason that people with "middle-eastern" features are harassed as "terrorist" today--it's called "profiling"