Question

1. What events led to the creation of Japanese internment camps in America during the Second World War? 2. Who authorized the creation of these camps and the forced removal of Japanese Americans? 3. How are the camps an example of legally sanctioned discrimination and persecution? 4. What were the conditions of the internment camps? 5. How did life for Japanese Americans in the camps differ from their lives before the camps? 6. What reactions did Japanese Americans have to their forced internment? 7. What reparations or compensations were made to Japanese Americans for this discriminatory treatment?

Answer 1

1. We believed that the Japs had spies here in America so the greatest way to overcome that was hide them and out them away.

2. President Franklin D. Roosevelt

3. It wasn't discrimination... It was war. Just like what's going on now with the travel ban. We are keeping our enemy's away from the public.

4. They were quite disgusting run down areas. They usually didn't have much food but to not starve to death. They weren't treated bad by the camp guards but they weren't treated good by them either.

5. Well it was a prison camp. They were under constant supervision. They were never "alone". Its like being in prison without the cell doors.

6. They were very unhappy for very good reason. They obviously didn't want to be out there. Some who were well know were permitted to go to other country's but other than that they hated it.

7. $20,000 to the surviving people.