The Japanese Internment was caused by a mixture of different reasons.
Racial tensions could be blamed. Xenophobia could too. However, those things were already there, like gasoline, waiting for someone to light a match. What was the match? The Attack on Pearl Harbor. The Attack on Pearl Harbor was a military strike by the Japanese Navy against a naval base in Hawaii. Pearl Harbor was attacked on January 7, 1941. The Attack on Pearl Harbor was directly related to the United States entering World War II.
The Japanese Internment really came to be was the signing of Executive Order #9066. Executive Order #9066, authorized by Franklin Delano Roosevelt on 2/19/42, was very carefully worded. However, what it authorized was not well thought out.
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What did Japanese Americans do in these camps for three years? Plenty of things.
In Oregon, internees had to produce much of their food on the surrounding farmland. Also in Oregon, relocation centers had their own hospitals, warehouses, and post offices. Younger internees could continue their schooling in the relocation center’s own school. Many internment camps had mess halls with long lines, where you brought your own silverware. This was a much different life than the inhabitants of the camps were used to.
Exe parto Endo, a US Supreme Court decision handed down in December of 1944, unanimously ruled that the US could not persist to detain any citizens who were “concededly loyal”. This cleared the way for the release of the Japanese Americans who were interned during the early days of World War
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The Japanese Americans would get one. But not quickly. Many years after the Internment of Japanese Americans, a younger generation of Japanese Americans started the “Redress Movement”.
The “Redress Movement” was an effort to acquire an official apology and redress for the events that occurred during the internment. In 1980, Congress initiated the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians. The Commission found that the internment of Japanese Americans was not a military necessity, but was caused by racism and prejudiced ideas. The Commission suggested that each living victim of internment be paid $20,000 in reparations.
In 1988, nearly 45 years after internees were released, they were finally reimbursed for their troubles. With exactly $20,000 for each surviving internment victim and an official apology. An estimated 60,000 were still alive in 1988. That’s about half of the original amount of Japanese Americans