U.S. History Period 1 1/23/13 The bombing of Pearl Harbor‚ “a day that will leave in infamy.” Pearl Harbor was an attack on the United States Naval Base‚ located in Hawaii‚ made by the Japanese. This led to the wrongful and unjust internment of innocent Japanese Americans. Families were split and torn apart‚ business were let go‚ and homes were lost. All because “Americans” were afraid and made wrong judgments and let emotions play into their decisions. Americans believed that
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Despite the question of morality raised by the japanese internment camps‚ the United States government was completely justified in the relocation of the japanese-American citizens given the situation the entire country was placed in during World War II. Critics of the japanese interment must take into consideration the dire position the United States was caught in after the bombing of Pearl Harbor had recently taken place. A number of Japanese-Americans located on the west coast were later discovered
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were fishermen‚ farmers‚ and some agricultural laborers. Despite all they had contributed to society‚ they were looked upon with disdain and discriminated against. According to a document on Gale Group’s History Resource Center‚ “Although their internment was a direct result of animosities raised by the attack on Pearl Harbor‚ the wartime treatment of Japanese Americans is also symptomatic of the anti-Asian sentiment present in the western United States since the arrival of Chinese as laborers on
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Cited: Davis‚ Daniel S. Behind Barbed Wire. New York‚ NY: E. P. Dutton‚ Inc.‚ 1982. Girdner and Loftis‚ The Great Betrayal‚ 148. Irons‚ Peter‚ ed.‚ Justice Delayed: The Record of the Japanese American Internment Cases. Middletown‚ CT: Wesleyan University Press‚ 1989‚ 83. Ng‚ Wendy. Japanese American Internment during World War II: A History and Refernce Guide. Westport‚ CT: Greenwood Press‚ 2002. Smith‚ Page. Democracy on Trial. New York: Simon and Schuster‚ 1995‚ 124. Stanley‚ Jerry. I Am An American:
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Internment camps and barbed wire fences. Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and America went into fight or flight‚ they put all Japanese in an internment camp to stop them from having any connections with the Emperor and trying to sabotage America until the war was over. Internment camps and concentrations camps weren’t made for the same thing because‚ Germany was prejudice against the jews and put them in concentration camps out of hate‚ Nazi concentration camps and Jewish internment camps are not essentially
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Japanese spies living in America. Finally‚ America had to in some way respond to Pearl Harbor for the mental health of its own citizens and protect their home soil. It is easy for people in hindsight to say that the internment of the Japanese Americans was unjust‚ but in wartime‚ this internment was necessary for the
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Canada prides itself with how multicultural and diverse it is‚ taking a look at the 20th century shows that it has not always been that way‚ and that there have been many obstacles to overcome. The mistreatment of Japanese-Canadians during their internment‚ denying the 376 passengers of the Komagata Maru food or water for 2 months after not letting them into Canada‚ forcing indigenous children into the residential schools where they were stripped of everything they knew and taught to be “normal Euro-Canadian
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The decision to begin a Japanese internment was initiated because of the distrust people felt towards Japanese after the attack on Pearl Harbor. This was their first military involvement in the war‚ and before Pearl Harbor the war probably seemed like something far away that wouldn’t include the United States in battle. When the first affects of Pearl Harbor started to wear off‚ people become wary of the Japanese. Naturally‚ the Americans felt a distrust towards them after the government from their
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Japanese-Americans who were killed in the internment camps is unknown but over 127‚00 were put into the labor camps and about 7% of them died from hunger‚ dehydration or other unnatural causes such as executions. Japanese-Americans and Jews were both excluded of citizenship for either their nationality or religion. Jews were put in these concentration camps from 1933 to around 1945 by Hitler and the German army. Japanese-Americans were put in the internment camps around the year of 1945 through 1946
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The Japanese internment that occurred during the 1940s under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was partially a result of the profiling of Japanese people as spies or untrustworthy similar to the assumptions made about characteristics a woman would have that would make her more likely to be accused of witchcraft. The Internment of Japanese Americans and citizens during World War II exhibits starkingly similar parallels to the witch hunts Arthur Miller examined in his play The Crucible due to the
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