Japanese Internment Ppt2

8/2/2019 Japanese Internment Ppt2

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Japanese Internment

http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/99/fear/gallery.html


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Pearl Harbors Impact on the

Japanese Anti-Japanese sentiments have

existed in the United States forseveral decades prior to theattack on Pearl Harbor.

On December 7, 1941, the

United States naval base PearlHarbor was attacked by Japan,resulting in the U.S. entry intoWWII.

During that time, more than119,000 people of Japaneseancestry, two-thirds of themAmerican citizens, were livingin California, Washington, andOregon.

(www.usatoday.com/.../contenttemplate14.htm )
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President Franklin D. Rooseveltsigned Executive Order No.9066 in February of 1942.

Executive Order No. 9066empowered the U.S. Army to

designate areas from which"any or all persons may beexcluded."

The attack of Pearl Harborshocked the American public,resulting in widespreadhysteria and paranoia.


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Those of Japaneseancestry living on theWest Coast were tobe relocated.

Internment refers tothe forced

imprisonment andrelocation of a groupof people.


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Internment

Fear of disloyalty on the part of anyIssei or Nisei was common amongmany Americans.

Issei: those born in Japan,regarded by the U.S.government as ineligible forU.S. citizenship.

Nisei: those born to Japanparents, thus U.S. citizens.

1/3 of the population of Hawaii was

comprised of those of Japanesedescent, thus many of them werenot interned, however the islandswere placed under martial law.

Video ClipDays of Waiting 1:30 minQuestions to consider: Describe life in a relocation

camp. How is that life differentfrom your own?

Describe the differing points ofview held by the elderly and theyoung.

http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/images/photodb/23-0307a.gifHousing in a Japanese Relocation camp

http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/images/photodb/23-0306a.gifJapanese near trains during Relocation
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Japanese assets were frozen afterthe attack on Pearl Harbor,making it difficult for manyJapanese Americans to move fromthe West Coast.

March 2, 1942Gen. John L. DeWitt issues PublicProclamation No. 1 which createsMilitary Areas Nos. 1 and 2.Military Area No. 1 includes thewestern portion of California,Oregon and Washington, and part

of Arizona. Military Area No. 2includes the rest of these states.The proclamation also hints thatpeople might be excluded fromMilitary Area No. 1.(http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/timeline.html)

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Japanese Internment Camp Locations
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March 18, 1942The president signs Executive Order 9102 establishingthe War Relocation Authority (WRA) with MiltonEisenhower as director. It is allocated $5.5 million.

(http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/timeline.html)

March 21, 1942The first advance groups of Japanese American"volunteers" arrive at Manzanar, CA. The WRA wouldtake over on June 1 and transform it into a "relocationcenter."(http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/timeline.html)
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March 24, 1942The first Civilian ExclusionOrder issued by the Army isissued for the BainbridgeIsland area near Seattle. The

forty-five families there aregiven one week to prepare. Bythe end of October, 108exclusion orders would beissued, and all JapaneseAmericans in Military Area No.

1 and the California portion ofNo. 2 would be incarcerated.(http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/timeline.html)

(www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/od9066ph.html )
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War Relocation Authority(WRA)Centers


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Life in Internment Camps

"In the detention centers,families lived insubstandard housing, hadinadequate nutrition andhealth care, and had their

livelihoods destroyed:many continued to sufferpsychologically long aftertheir release"- "Personal Justice Denied:Report of the Commission on

Wartime Relocation andInternment of Civilians"

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

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"In desert camps, theevacuees met severeextremes of temperature.In winter it reached 35degrees below zero, and

summer broughttemperatures as high as115 degrees. Rattlesnakesand desert wildlife addeddanger to discomfort."- Personal Justice Denied:

Report of the Commission onWartime Relocation andInternment of Civilians.(http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/camps.html)

(http://www.nps.gov/manz/hrs/hrst.htm)
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Life in Manzanar

Photos taken by Ansel Adams (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage)
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In 1988, Congress implemented the CivilLiberties Act, apologizing on behalf of the nationfor the "grave injustice" done to persons of

Japanese ancestry. Congress declared that theinternments had been "motivated largely byracial prejudice, wartime hysteria, and a failureof political leadership" and authorized $20,000

payments to Japanese Americans who hadsuffered injustices during World War II.

(http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aamhtml/aamabout.html)

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