Japanese+Internment+Camps

Along the west side of California, relocated Japanese-American internement camps were authorized by the governments of the United States. In 1942, about 110,000 Japanese-Americans were put into internment camps after the crisis of the [|Pearl Harbor attack]. President Franklin D. Roosevelt stated that it was for our nation's and country's safety. Many Americans didn't argue to this statement nor did they deny it. The Japanese-Americans were kept in the internment camps for about 4 years until they were finally released in 1948. Although, 40 years later, [|President Ronald Reagan] had signed the [|Civil Liberties Act of 1988] in order to prevent internment camps from happening agian. The Japanese- Americans then owned lands again, property, and homes from the governement of the United States, since before they had lost their belongings especially homes and lands.

1. Article - Introduction and Beginning of Internment - Effects During Camps in and Outside of the Camps - What Effects did the Internement Camps had on the Gov./Cong./& Pres. and America's Thoughts - The After Affect of the Internment Camps and Abolishing the Camps 2. Analysis -Intro to Basic Information on Internment Camps - What Caused the Camps? - Why Only Japanese-Americans? - At the Very End ||
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**Intro ** In 1942, after the Pearl Harbor attack, [|President Franklin D. Roosevelt] and the government of the United States authorized internment camps to imprison the nation’s Japanese-Americans, fearful that the Japanese-Americans would terrorize the country. After the events of Pearl Harbor, about 110,000 Japanese-Americans from the west coast of the United States were kept in these suffocating camps. Many of the imprisoned lost lands and properties after being taken captive and, often, they did not even know why. **Conditions Inside the Camps ** Along the west coast region of California, about 110,000 Japanese-Americans were put into [|internment camps]. Most of them were just children between the ages of four to twelve years old. President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave the order for the internment camps under the constitutional permit of national defense in order to protect the American nation. There were about 10 “concentration camps” located in the western area of the United States all located in remote areas such as Arizona, Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming. The [|Japanese-Americans] were relocated and moved from their homes to these camps where they lived amongst many other families. As the years went by, more and more of the Japanese-Americans were dying in the internment camps and causing uproar from the rest of America concerning the safety of the camps. President Franklin D. Roosevelt had stated that the camps were not set out to harm or sabotage any of the Japanese people, yet many were dying from illnesses, the severe stress from the internment camps and even from beatings at the hands of the military guards for resistance. However, this was not the intention of the camps and the Japanese-Americans were not being kept there for crimes. President Franklin D. Roosevelt tried to prove this to the society by stating, “//our government had in its possession proof that not one Japanese American, citizen or not, had engaged in espionage, not one had committed any act of sabotage.” // Many did not believe this, however, very few thought that the Japanese-Americans were dying because of racial issues or violence in the camps, or failure of the government of the United States. President Franklin D. Roosevelt then tried to upgrade and improve the medical care in the camps, the source of the deaths, in an effort restore the [|health of the Japanese-Americans]. So, inside the camps, things began to improve while outside the camps, more issues built up towards the government and the President. **America’s Thoughts ** For many years, Americans were angered and even jealous of the benefits Japanese-Americans received from being trapped in the internment camps. With the Japanese sacrifices and successes, their economic problems and living ways had changed as it was a gift from Congress. The people outside of the camps were spiteful and angry because their economic problems weren’t taken care of like those of the Japanese. This brought out problems such as anti-Japanese activists who detested the internment camps and the Japanese people inside them. Some Americans felt as if inside the camp would be easier and more successful than the world outside. They failed to realize that sacrifice and belief were the only things that were keeping the Japanese-Americans alive and healthy inside. **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 19px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Abolishing the camps ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0.5in; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">About 4 years later from 1946-48, the Japanese internment camps were purchased by congressmen to put an end to all the chaos they had caused. Congress agreed that great injustice had been done to the Japanese-Americans so they passed the Civil Liberties Act of 1988. The Japanese-Americans were given back money, properties, and items that they had owned prior to their imprisonment. President Franklin D. Roosevelt didn’t sign the Civil Liberties Act, but President Reagan did in his stead in honor of the Japanese-Americans. However, after the camps were abolished, many of the freed families and individuals still did not receive all of their properties and belongings back. Congress had lost about $20,000 trying to repay and regain the Japanese people’s properties. The Japanese internment camps had finally ended, and many of the Japanese people tried to go on and relive their lives, but, after all that had happened, things could not return to normal. After the tension, anger and loss of both the Pearl Harbor attack and the internment camps, returning to normal life would be difficult, especially for the Japanese-Americans who’d gone through much discrimination because of their Japanese ancestry. The Japanese-American internment camps had finally come to an end, but the feelings that they left behind continued to affect the nation. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0.5in; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Analysis **

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0.5in; vertical-align: auto;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Intro ** Excluded, discriminated against, and remove from the American society was what had happened to about 110,00 Japanese-Americans throughout the west coast of the United States after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 was what led to the taunting and embarrassment of the Japanese-Americans. The Japanese-Americans were seen as terrorists and destroyers of the nation even though they were citizens of the United States. They were embarrassed, harassed, and shut away from the rest of the world and this became the start of the Japanese-American internment camps of 1942. The Japanese-Americans did not deserve to be put into camps because of their Japanese ancestry and the attack on Pearl Harbor. **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">What caused the camps? ** In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt had located and relocated internment camps to keep the Japanese Americans from terrorizing and destroying the nation. Japanese-Americans were evacuated and removed from their homes to be put into internment camps and it was to keep the nation safe under the fear of being attacked again. Anybody that was related, or blood connected to Japanese ancestry were put into these camps and about half of the people in the camps were children. Feared and afraid of what may happen to them and their families, the Japanese-Americans had moved into the internment camps. As weeks and months passed by, many more Japanese-Americans were put into the internment camps and as more and more people came in, more and more of the people started dying. The Japanese-Americans were not safe in the inside or the outside of the internment camps. **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Why only Japanese-Americans? ** After the Pearl Harbor attack, the Japanese-Americans were prejudged as terrorists and threats to the nation. This had struck the Congress and Governments that the Japanese-Americans can be a great threat due to the Japanese attacking Pearl Harbor. That’s the reason why the government had cleared anyone to the internment camps if they had any relation to the Japanese ancestry. The political authorities were afraid of the Japanese-Americans turning against the U.S. Prejudgment like this from higher up authority set an example that the Americans wouldn’t want to follow. Americans then questioned about the politics and governments about giving their full trust to the governments or not. It was reasonable for the Americans to consider their trust in the governments and the President because they had done many things to the internment camps that were consider unreasonable. Although the camps were pricey to build and relocate, it didn’t stop the President and the Americans from spending so much money just to protect the nation from Japanese-Americans who weren’t even involved in the Pearl Harbor attack. <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 115%;"> Having time spent on interning the Japanese- been Americans, this time could have used to protect the Americans. [|Germans] were invading and attacking areas around New York, and Florida, Miami in order to sabotage the Americans for priced items, but during this time, the governments and the President were too busy evacuating Japanese-Americans. The Germans failed to succeed their mission by trying to sabotage for our crown jewels, but if they had not failed, the Americans and higher authorities would have never caught up to the Germans. The Congress, governments, and President took the risk of only concentrating on one certain area of terrorism and nation-wide matter, when they have another situation going on more or less important, but still risky. This was a terrifying, but dangerous situation where there was too much focus on one certain fault, while there is another situation that causes danger. The Germans could have taken any American price possession if the only Japanese-American and why not Germans too.y had not failed to do so. The President and Governments didn’t even worry if the German people can be a threat just like the Japanese-Americans were. Why <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">The Germans were as great as a threat as the Japanese people, but nobody said a word about the Japanese-Americans and the Germans. The President and Governments didn’t even worry if the German people can be a threat just like the Japanese-Americans were. Why only Japanese-American and why not Germans too. The Japanese-Americans were segregated from everyone else and it was not like they wished to be, but they had to be. They were trapped in such a small and suffocated place; the Japanese-Americans were all on their own in the camps separated from the rest of the nation. Japanese-Americans did not deserve to be the only ones to be look down upon on; they were the same as any other people like the Americans. **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">At the very end ** After the 4 years that many people had spent in the internment camps, they were finally released and welcomed back to their homes. As many of the families tried to return to their usual homes and lives, there wasn’t much to return to. The Japanese people’s homes weren’t theirs anymore, some lost lands and homes to those they know nothing of, and many lost their most valuable properties and belongings that was once precious to them all. The Congress tried to reclaim and return most of the families’ valuables, but nothing was the same anymore for the Japanese families. The Japanese-Americans would have to make up the lives they lost inside the camps and many have to make up lost memories. Although the congress did repay money to families and tried to give them all a great start to a new beginning, it wasn’t enough because the congress also had their own problems repaying the Japanese-Americans. Money can’t solve anything and especially when the congress didn’t have enough to repay all the families. The congresses were almost in-debt from trying to revive something that can’t be brought back from the Japanese-Americans, life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. The Japanese-American internment camps were put to rest in 1948 and it was the end of a horrible American history, but a new historical beginning. ======