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• More than 66% of the Japanese-Americans were sent to the internment camps in 1942.

• There were 10 Japanese internment camps in America.

• The prisoners got grub style food (what people eat in prisons today).

• Over 127,000 United States citizens were imprisoned during World War II. 

• Evacuation orders were posted in JAPANESE-AMERICAN communities.

• Almost 40 percent of Hawaiian islanders were Japanese-American. 

• Internees stayed in animal stables and stalls where livestock had been kept recently.

• President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942, authorizing the U.S.  military to remove over 120,000 people of Japanese descent.

• There were 10 Japanese internment camps in the United States located in California, Idaho, Utah, Arkansas, Colorado, Wyoming, and Arizona.

• The last Japanese internment camp in the United States was closed in 1945.

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Fred Korematsu• Fred Korematsu was born January 30,

1919 in Oakland, CA.• Fred Korematsu died on March 30,

2005 in Marin County, CA.• Fred Korematsu had 3 brothers.• Fred Korematsu was one of the most

famous Japanese-Americans of his time.

• Many Americans worried that citizens of Japanese ancestry might act as spies or saboteurs for the Japanese government.

• Armed sentries stood watch around the clock and would shoot them if they tried to escape.

•  Fred Korematsu went to Cast Lemont Community of Small Schools.

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REPARATIONS

• In 1988, America gave the 60,000 surviving Japanese-Americans $20,000 each. That means that they gave them $1.3 billion all together.

More Facts• More than 66% of the Japanese-Americans were

sent to the internment camps in the spring of 1942.

• During World War II, more than 127,000 Japanese-American citizens were imprisoned at internment camps in the United States.

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Websites

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FredKorematsu www.ushistory.org/us/51e.asp http://

www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/japanese-american-relocation