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Essay On Japanese Internment Camps

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After the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941, the United States government's perspective on Japanese Americans changed significantly. Within months, President Roosevelt had issued the Executive Order 9066, February 19, 1942 (Ford 255). After this everything began to change for the Japanese Americans.

The government thought the best thing to do regarding the Japan attack on Pearl Harbor was to send the Japanese to internment camps, just in case there were any “spys”.When the Japanese were taken away from their homes, they could only bring a small amount of their belongings.The belongings they would not bring with them were put in a yard sale. The valvules or stores/houses the families left behind were usually vandalized or …show more content…

When they arrived they were greeted to buildings surrounded by barbed wire and guarded towers (Bearden). Uchida explains the camps as an “old horse stall that had been turned into small apartments” and that the floors were linoleum covered manure, dirt and it smelled of insects and horses (Uchida 248). Each family had to share a stall with at least six other families. The government viewed this scenario in a different way. The government released a propaganda video to the public regarding these internment camps, but it was nothing like what was actually happening. The video states that the government “helped” before everything was moved, the video also says the Japanese had church, had enough food, they build schools, and even had an own government (Ella’s Archives). Although this was the truth, the government only told the good part of the story. The video did not include how they were short on supplies or how the guards got to check their mail. To sum up, the Japanese were put through this horrible conditions without the American people knowing all the

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