After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, how were Japanese Americans

treated during World War II?

Cristina Lilly

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Cristina Lilly

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Stem Questions

• How were the Japanese Americans picked to live in these camps?

• What were the conditions of the internment camps?

• Were there any objections to this treatment of Japanese Americans?

• What happened to the Japanese Americans after they were released from the internment camps?

How were the Japanese Americans picked to live in these camps?

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• Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. This order issued that all Japanese Americans and permanent residents of Japanese ancestry be moved to internment camps, ten total in the United States. The government said that this act was a “military necessity” in order to protect us here in the U.S.

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• The Executive Orders were left in Japanese-American communities. Many of the people forced to go to the camps were born in the United States and had never been to Japan. Many had to sell their homes, businesses, and assets.

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What were the conditions of the internment camps?

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• When the orders were first given to the Japanese-American communities, many of the camps were not completed. Some had to stay in temporary centers in stables at racetracks. Once the camps were completed, groups were moved into barracks made of tarpaper.

• The barracks were too hot in the summer and too cold in the winter. The food was served in a mess hall. Children went to school, and adults could work for five dollars a day. Armed military men stood by watching these interned day and night.

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Were there any objections to this treatment of Japanese Americans?

• Fred Korematsu challenged the Supreme Court for the treatment of Japanese-Americans.

• The Supreme Court ruled that Executive Order 9066 was a “wartime necessity.”

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• Hirabayashi v. United States (1943), Yasui v. United States (1943) -– Hirabayashi and Yasui – both challenged the

Supreme Court for convictions they were charged with at the internment camps.

– The Supreme Court upheld their convictions.

Minoru YasuiGordon Hirabayashi http://caamedia.org/jainternment/camps/court.html

What happened to the Japanese Americans after they were released from

the internment camps?

• Many interns could not return to their homes due to the fact that they had to sell their homes and businesses, but also because of the hatred of Japanese-Americans after World War II. Many had to relocate to various parts of the United States.

Civil Liberties Act of 1988

• In 1988, Congress ordered all surviving interns $20,000, sending apology letters to these Japanese-Americans.

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