Japanese-American Internment

Causes

Pearl Harbor

• Japanese Residents Sabotage War Effort

Making Headlines

• “The Yellow Peril-How Japanese Crown Out the White Race”
• “Brown Artisans Steal Brains of Whites”
• “Crime And Poverty Go Hand in Hand with Asiatic Labor”
• “Japanese a Menace to American Women”

Greed

• Farmers eliminate competition
• Politicians hoping to gain power by rallying against an unpopular group

The Event

Executive Order 9066
Franklin D. Roosevelt

State of Camps

• Armed Guards and Barbed Wire
• American-born children held more power than elders
• Uprooted Traditional Structure

Survivors Paid a Price

1945

• 3 years after the beginning of Internment
• Some were allowed to return home, in 1946 the last camp closed

Restitution

Affect on Today

Donald Trump defended his proposal to ban Muslims by saying it was no worse than Franklin D. Roosevelt's World War Two detainment of Japanese-Americans (Asia Times Staff).

Bess K. Chin's Experience

• Removed from school
• Stayed in the Los Angeles County fairground's parking lot
• Mother got sick and they were seperated

Continued

• Guarded by Military Police
• Pulled train shades down in the city
• Labeled as Spies

Given ~3 weeks of preparation, the family was sad upon departure and was forced to sell belongings for clothing and other supplies.

Japanese-American Internment