Japanese Americans

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Japanese Americans

• Michael Hagen / Chase Berklacich / Michael
  Codorniz / Jared Drake

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• 150,000 Japanese Anericans lived in Hawaii during
  the time of Pearl Harbor. These civilians were
  accused of helping plan the surprise attack and
  had their loyalty to the US questioned. The
  United States War Department suggested we
  evacuate the entire race from our country. This
  recommendation was denied due to the Hawaiin
  military governor calming down his people.
  Businesses also opposed an evacuation because so
  many jobs would be lost and these companies would
  be unable to provide profit for the island's
  economy. The press worked hard to back up this
  position. In the end, nearly all Japanese
  Americans stayed.

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Opportunity
Most Japanese Americans did not have many
opportunities in America after Pearl Harbor most
of the Japanese were put into internment camps
because the government saw them as a threat to
national security
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Hardships

• Hawaii suggests that their mass removal on the
  West Coast was racially motivated rather than
  born of "military necessity." Due to the attack
  on Pearl Harbor.
• Executive Order 9066 was written in vague terms
  that did not specify an ethnicity, it was used
  for the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans.
  The government claimed that incarceration was for
  military necessity and, ironically, to "protect"
  Japanese Americans from racist retribution they
  might face as a result of Pearl Harbor.
• "Evacuated" families left behind homes,
  businesses, pets, land, and most of their
  belongings. Taking only what they could carry,
  Japanese Americans were taken by bus and train to
  assembly centers hastily converted facilities
  such as race tracks and fairgrounds. Here they
  awaited reassignment to the "relocation camps."
• The bombing of Pearl Harbor it shows the power of
  the japanese military as it was a surprise attack
  towards the United States.On December 7, 1941,
  Japan launched a devastating surprise aerial
  attack on the U. S. Pacific Fleet anchored at
  Pearl Harbor and on American military airfields
  on Oahu.
• On January 2, 1945, the Exclusion Order was
  lifted and Japanese Americans were free to leave
  the relocation camps and to return to their
  former homes, or to any location they pleased.
  Some of the interned Japanese (1,327) who
  although U. S. residents were Japanese citizens,
  chose to emigrate to Japan (although the war was
  still on). The last relocation camp closed in
  1946.

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Terms

• Internment Camps
• An internment camp is a center for confining
  people who have been relocated for reasons of
  national security
• Korematsu v. United States
• The court upheld his convention on the
  grounds that a groups civil rights can be set
  aside in a time of war.
• Executive Order 9066
• This authorized the secretary of war to
  prescribe certain areas as military zones. This
  cleared the way for the deportation of japanese
  americans to internment camps.