Overview:
Japanese Internment Camps were used in the United States during World War 2. These camps were used to segregate Japanese-Americans in fear that they would be a threat to America. This was caused by Executive Order 9066, signed by the president at the time, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. These camps served their purpose from 1942 to 1945. Over 120,000 Japanese-Americans went to the camps. Anyone of Japanese ancestry in the U.S. had to go into these camps for the three years they were used. Only one-third of the people in the camps were fully Japanese; the other two-thirds were Nisei (Japanese-American).
These camps had a very big impact on the U.S. While I do not think that this was a good decision, I think some measure should have been taken, but these camps were excessive. There was a lot of pressure to take this act coming from the people and even some people in government offices. It shows how paranoia can get to the brains of people and cause a country to run amok. How fear and confict can drive a nation to turn on its own people and cause them to be secluded into the middle of the western deserts in our country. This is a great example of what can happen when war frightens people enough to take action to stop it.
These camps had a very big impact on the U.S. While I do not think that this was a good decision, I think some measure should have been taken, but these camps were excessive. There was a lot of pressure to take this act coming from the people and even some people in government offices. It shows how paranoia can get to the brains of people and cause a country to run amok. How fear and confict can drive a nation to turn on its own people and cause them to be secluded into the middle of the western deserts in our country. This is a great example of what can happen when war frightens people enough to take action to stop it.
This video is a military video explaining the "Japanese Relocation". It is government propaganda to try to make the camps seem good to the public.