Japanese Americans

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Japanese Americans

• Impact on

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Key Terms

• Enemy Aliens- Proclamations signed by president
  Roosevelt declaring all German, Italian, and
  Japanese nationals, or non- U.S citizens to be
  enemy aliens. Government considered putting all
  enemy aliens into camps. Government made them
  carry special identification cards.
• Internment Camps- a center for confining people
  who have been relocated for reasons of national
  security.
• Executive Order 9066- this order declared that
  large military zones could be set up to exclude
  current residents who were believed to be a
  threat to security.
• Korematsu v. United States- the Court upheld his
  conviction on the grounds that a groups civil
  rights can be set aside in a time of war.

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Hardship

• People of Japanese descent were sent to
  concentration camps
• This action was put into place by the Executive
  Order 9066
• Were thought of as threat.
• After war people blamed them for the start and
  were very racist towards them.
• They lost houses and farms and many belongings to
  the sudden move.

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No opportunity

• There were no opportunities for Japanese
  Americans during WWII. The Japanese americans
  lost everything during the war, homes,
  businesses, farms, respect, status and sense of
  achievement.
• Japanese Americans were relocated into internment
  camps, many people who were not always family
  members, shared small living spaces.
• Japanese Americans did their best to get through
  this experience and remained surprisingly loyal
  to a nation that treated them so unfairly. More
  than 300,000 Japanese American men enlisted in
  the armed forces.

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Who did what

• Connor Key Terms
• Noah No Opportunity
• Sam Hardship
• Navy This slide and Hardship