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Japanese Internment Camps

What Were the Internment Camps?

Japanese Internment Camps

  • 1942-1946
  • Roosevelt and Franklin
  • Executive Order
  • Relocated 120,000 Japanese-Americans to camps

Japanese children in the camps

Farming fields where the inmates attempted to cultivate crops

What were the Internment Camps? (cont)

  • Working Camps
  • Communal Mess Halls
  • Attempted Farming
  • Bad living conditions
  • Mass produced food

Camp Conditions

  • No plumbing
  • No cooking facilities
  • Low temperatures
  • Food was extremely Rationed

First-Hand Accounts

  • Chizu Liyama
  • Rose Nieda
  • Marvin Uratsu
  • 82 year old at interview
  • Remained with family in the camps
  • Moved from camp to camp
  • Better quality camps
  • Currently 87 years old
  • Sent to camp right after the 9066 order was signed
  • Mentioned how everyone was seperated by race
  • Currently 84 years old
  • 6 months in camp
  • Sent as a teenager
  • Separated from her family

By: Claire Foote

Internment Camps

  • 62%- United States Citizens
  • Forced Interment- Racism vs. Threat
  • Hirabiyashi vs. United States(1943)

Conclusion

1945- Some citizens were allowed to return to the West Coast

1946- Final Camp Closed

1948- Property Payment Losses

1988- Restitution Payments Awarded

Bibliography

History News Network. "Why Did the U.S. Intern the Japanese During WW II?" History News Network. N.p., 2002. Web. 25 Feb. 2015.

Japanese-American Relocation. (n.d.). Retrieved February 25, 2015, from http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/japanese-american-relocation

Japanese Relocation Centers. (2015, January 1). Retrieved February 26, 2015, from http://www.factmonster.com/spot/internment1.html

Telling Their Stories. (n.d.). Retrieved February 26, 2015, from http://www.tellingstories.org/internment/

Internment of Japanese Americans. (2015, February 26). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 15:12, February 26, 2015, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Internment_of_Japanese_Americans&oldid=648878848

Wikipedia contributors. "Executive Order 9066." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 9 Feb. 2015. Web. 28 Feb. 2015.

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