Treatment of Japanese Americans

Tahira Rehman

Pearl Harbor- After the Japanese bombed

Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 which ordered all Japanese Americans to evacuate the West Coast

- Resulted in the relocation of 120,000 people to one of ten internment camps across the country

Pearl Harbor Effects cont.

- Americans began to think that all Japanese Americans were involved in the attack and had to be taken out of society to prevent any future attacks

- Despite the fact that they didn’t have any evidence, Non- Japanese Americans thought that the Japanese Americans would remain loyal to Japan and needed to be taken out of society to prevent future attacks

Treatment in the Camps- Japanese Americans were housed in "tar paper-

covered barracks of simple frame construction without plumbing or cooking facilities of any kind."

- over crowded and unsanitary conditions- not much medical care (few nurses and even

fewer doctors)

“All japanese persons, both alien and non alien, will be evacuated from the above designated area of 12:00 o’clock noon, Tuesday, April &, 1942.”

“The Civil Control Station is equipped to assist the Japanese population affected by the evacuation in the following ways:- provide temporary residence

elsewhere for all Japanese in family groups

- transport persons and a limited amount of clothing and equipment to their residence”

Questions1.What did FDR sign that ordered the

Japanese Americans into internment camps?

2.Around how many people were forced out of their homes into these camps?

3.True or false: Japanese Americans were treated well in the internment camps.

Bibliographyhttp://www.ushistory.org/us/51e.asphttp://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/japanese-american-relocationhttp://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2011/08/world-war-ii-internment-of-japanese-americans/100132/