Japanese Interment Camps
Published on Nov 18, 2015
No Description
MORE DECKS TO EXPLORE
PRESENTATION OUTLINE
JAPANESE INTERMENT CAMPS
FELICIA CIRCELLI, ALEXIS ANKROM, CAMEELAH GAYLE, JAYSON TAYLOR
Photo by haribote
Background:
Dec 7th 1941- Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, US citizens fear another attack
February 19th 1944- President Roosevelt signed executive order 9066, 127000 people of Japanese descent living in the US were removed from their homes and placed in internment camps
December 1944- public proclamation number 21 became effective in January of 1945 allowed them to return to their homes
There were ten internment camps: Tule lakes, Minidoka, Heart Mountain, Topaz, Manzarar, Poston, Gila River, Amache, Rohwer, amd Jerome
Photo by Varin Tsai
Why Were the Camps Established?
Roosevelt's executive order was fueled by anti-Japanese sentiment among farmers who competed against Japanese labor, politicians who sided with anti-Japanese constituencies, and the general public, whose frenzy was heightened by the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor. More than two-thirds of the Japanese who were interned in the spring of 1942 were citizens of the United States.
Photo by drubuntu
EFFECTS OF THE WAR
Germany was split into four zones
All the Japanese that were displaced on the west coast and moved into the camps lost their jobs, their businesses and their homes. It was economically devastating.
It also may have led to many of these people to move to other parts of the country.
Japan was in ruins from constant bombs
Photo by JessicaFairchild.com
Conditions in the U.S. Camps
The U.S. internment camps were overcrowded and provided poor living conditions. According to a 1943 report published by the War Relocation Authority (the administering agency), Japanese Americans were housed in "tarpaper-covered barracks of simple frame construction without plumbing or cooking facilities of any kind." Coal was hard to come by, and internees slept under as many blankets as they were allowed. Food was rationed out at an expense of 48 cents per internee, and served by fellow internees in a mess hall of 250-300 people.
They had few luxuries like being about to write letters to friends and family members.
Photo by Manoj Kengudelu
Untitled Slide
Outcome of the war
• there was a conference held in Potsdam Germany that set up peace treaties
• country's that fought with hittler had to pay reparations to the allies
• Germany and it's capitol divided into four parts
• Cold War
Photo by SarahDeer
