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The Pros And Cons Of Internment Camps

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On December 11, 1941 Pearl Harbor was attacked by Japanese, more than 360 Japanese warplanes. They came and bombed our harbor killing more than 5,000 people. After the bombing America had a suspicion that maybe there was a spy, so they put more than 110,000 Japanese-Americans in an internment camps. I feel that internment camps were not necessary though because of that action we were thought of as racist, harsh, and dis loyal. I feel that because of those internment camps we were looked at as racist because we put humans in a internment camp just because they were of a different race. Also when attacks happened before we did not put the German or Italians in camps only Japanese. Also i feel we looked harsh because during the war not one
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Furthermore, the United States should do more to compensate the families of those impacted by internment because the recompense provided initially was minimal and should be considered an affront to the memory of the victims. Prior to World War II, the 127,000 Japanese-Americans along America’s west coast (Japanese American Relocation and Internment Camps) were considered just another immigrant group coming to America searching for a better life. However, with the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, this perception soon saw a drastic change. The attack on the US Naval base on December 7th, 1941 left many casualties in its wake.

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ONE The Japanese suffered more than the American citizens because the Japanese got sent to internment camps. Any Japanese immigrants and American citizens of Japanese heritage had to go while nothing happened to the American citizens, this response is because during World War 2 Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor led to America's mistrust of Japan so President Franklin D. Roosevelt made them internment camps so they couldn't betray the Americans. The Japanese had to stay in those camps for multiple years with limited resources and only getting paid 5 dollars a day to build themself a living like schools for their kids, churches, and more. TWO America was scared that the Japanese would attack as you would know from Document C which states “As

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December 7th of 1941 America would face a horrific scene in their own homeland, the Japanese would attack Pearl Harbor with their Air Force not once but twice. That same day President John F. Kennedy would decide to place the Japanese Americans, living in the country at the time, in internment camps. The civilians would not have a clue what they would be put up against, now they would have to encounter various obstacles to make sure they would be able to survive. “The camps were prisons, with armed soldiers around the perimeters, barbed wire. and controls over every aspect of life”(Chang).

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