Japanese American Internment Camps during World War II

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Japanese- American Internment Camps during World
War II

• Created by Miss DeRose

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Vocabulary

• Internment-To place in confinement (to shut or
  keep in), especially in wartime
• Barracks-A building, or group of buildings used
  to house military personnel.

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Map of Internment Camps
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How it started

• December 7th 1941 Japan attacked Pearl Harbor (a
  military base in Hawaii). United States was
  scared of another attack and war hysteria seized
  the country.
• February 19th 1942 Executive Order 9066 moved
  120,000 Japanese Americans from their homes into
  internment camps.
• The US justified their action by claiming there
  was a danger of Japanese Americans spying for
  Japan
• More than 2/3 of those interned were American
  citizens and 1/2 of them were children.
• Some family members were separated and put in
  different camps.

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Coming to the camps
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What was it like to live there?

• Life in the camps was hard.
• The families had about 2 days to pack for the
  camps
• They were only were allowed to bring what they
  could carry
• They were housed in barracks and had to use
  communal areas for washing, laundry and eating.

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What did the Japanese Americans do while in the
camps?
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School Time
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How did it end?

• January 1945 the Public Proclamation 21 became
  effective in which allowed internees to return to
  their homes.
• At the end of the war some remained in the US and
  rebuilt their lives
• Others were unforgiving and returned to Japan

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Were the internment camps necessary?

• None of the people interned had ever previously
  shown disloyalty to the United States.
• During the entire war only ten people were
  convicted of spying for Japan
• The ten people were all Caucasian.