When World War 2 ended, all across the world countries started housing POWs from Italy, Japan, and Germany. A prisoner of war (POW) is basically a soldier from a certain country who is taken prisoner and housed in camps until the war is over. The United States had these camps too. The U.S had German, Japanese, and Italian POWs threw out World War 1 and World War 2. But was this necessary? World War 2 World War 2 was fought between the Axis Powers (Germany, Italy, Japan) and the Allied Powers (Britain, United States, Soviet Union, France). Most of the countries in the world were involved in some way. It was the deadliest war in all of human history with around 70 million people killed. World War 2 started in 1939 when Germany invaded Poland. Great Britain and France reacted by announcing war on Germany. The United States joined the war on December 8, 1941. The war in Europe ended with Germany's surrender on May 7, 1945. The war in the Pacific ended when Japan surrendered on September 2, 1945. Establishment of POW Camps in USA During WW2, England asked the United States to build “prisoner of war camps” in the USA to keep England from overcrowding with POW camps. First, the United States rejected the idea, saying there would be many problems with the camps, and that the USA didn’t have people to run the camps, nor …show more content…
The USA spent four years building it. In the first year of building it, the U.S finished the officer’s quarters, barracks, a guardhouse, stables, a bakery, quartermaster and commissary storehouse, workshops, a veterinary hospital, and a water tower. In the next three years they finished a mess hall, the quartermaster stables guardhouse, the shedders and stables sergeants building, the gun shed, the army mess hall and central heating plant, the infantry drill hall, a magazine, an ordnance storehouse, the dead house, a blacksmith shop, a fire station, and a small storage