On February 19, 1942, soon after the beginning of World War II, Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066.

Japan had just bombed Pearl Harbor. Many of the U.S. seaport areas on the West coast were inhabited by Japanese-Americans.

Japanese Americans were housed in "tarpaper-covered barracks of simple frame construction without plumbing or cooking facilities of any kind.“

Coal was hard to come by, and internees slept under as many blankets as they were allotted.

Food was rationed out at an expense of 48 cents per internee, and served by fellow internees in a mess hall of 250-300 people.

Most of the camps were in Canada, and part of the western United States, like Arkansas, Utah, and California

On February 19, 1942, soon after the beginning of World War II, Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. The evacuation order commenced the round-up of 120,000 Americans of Japanese heritage to one of 10 internment camps—officially called "relocation centers"—in California, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Wyoming, Colorado, and Arkansas.

Japan had just bombed Pearl Harbor. Many of the U.S. seaport areas on the West coast were inhabited by Japanese-Americans.

The Japanese were kept in different schools and were not allowed to own land. They were segregated from the rest of society.

The evacuation order started to round-up of 120,000 Americans of Japanese heritage to one of 10 internment camps in either California, Utah, Arizona, Idaho, Colorado, Wyoming and Arkansas.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, and this made all the Japanese Americans go to this horrible camps.

General DeWitt provided a “security plan” for both United States citizens and the Japanese-Americans...well this is what was said. Was this the truth? The Official Government documents drastically differ from the first-hand accounts of what it was like in those “Pioneer Communities.”

In 1982, the U.S Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians was produced. It addresses a movement which arose in the 1970’s to “provide redress for victims of the internment.” Apparently, the government did realize that their actions in 1942 were morally wrong and detrimental to the Japanese involved. finally some common sense.

At this point the government has, admitted their

wrongdoings and injustices, and has offered methods of

repair and forgiveness, but the scars left upon those who

were in these camps cannot be repaired with a simple

apology and the offering of financial reimbursement, these

actions will never change the fact that America doubted

their patriotism for America. But most of all created fear to

America itself and I believe diminished their power, as

viewed by other countries. by this I mean how was America

viewed after they were portrayed as a nation who didn't

even trust their own inhabitants.

The older generation, or the Issei, were forced to watch as

the government promoted their children and ignored them.

Eventually the government allowed the people to leave the

concentration camps if they enlisted in the U.S. Army. This

offer was not well received. Only 1,200 people chose to do

so. this was kind of the American holocaust. These

concentration camps finally closed in 1944 by the president

Franklin d. Roosevelt. the president rescinded, and the last

camp to close was in the year 1945.

Roosevelt's executive order was fueled by anti-Japanese sentiment among farmers who competed against Japanese labor, politicians who sided with anti-Japanese constituencies, and the general public, whose frenzy was heightened by the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor. More than 2/3 of the Japanese who were interned in the spring of 1942 were citizens of the United States.

The worst of it came on February 19, 1942, when President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. The order stated that any area could become a designated military zone and any person deemed an “enemy” could be removed from it. Strangely, only people of Japanese heritage were taken to detention centers during the Japanese American Internment, despite the fact that there were numerous people of Italian and German descent living in the U.S., as well.

These concentration camps finally closed in 1944 by the president Franklin d. Roosevelt. the president rescinded, and the last camp to close was in the year 1945.

In 1943 all internees over the age of seventeen were given a loyalty test. They were asked two questions:

1. Are you willing to serve in the armed forces of the United States on combat duty wherever ordered? (Females were asked if they were willing to volunteer for the Army Nurse Corps or Women's Army Corps.)

2. Will you swear unqualified allegiance to the United States of America and faithfully defend the United States from any or all attack by foreign or domestic forces and forswear any form of allegiance or obedience to the Japanese emperor, to any other foreign government, power or organization?

This all finally ended, and all the camps were closed by 1945.

All the people that were trapped in those camps can now live happily ever after, but they are scared with all those memories that they will always keep!