AMERICAN IMPERIALISM 1890 1919
THE UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR I
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Question
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President Roosevelt was pressured by both military and political leaders to authorize the internment
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Japanese American children were put through a rigorous school system while at the internment camps
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most of those interned lost all their property and possessions
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the internment camps were essentially prisons
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the order for internment was upheld by the Supreme Court in 1944
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Detailed explanation-1: -Japanese internment camps were established during World War II by President Franklin D. Roosevelt through his Executive Order 9066. From 1942 to 1945, it was the policy of the U.S. government that people of Japanese descent, including U.S. citizens, would be incarcerated in isolated camps.
Detailed explanation-2: -Virtually all Japanese Americans were forced to leave their homes and property and live in camps for most of the war. The government cited national security as justification for this policy although it violated many of the most essential constitutional rights of Japanese Americans.
Detailed explanation-3: -Many Americans worried that citizens of Japanese ancestry would act as spies or saboteurs for the Japanese government. Fear-not evidence-drove the U.S. to place over 127, 000 Japanese-Americans in concentration camps for the duration of WWII.
Detailed explanation-4: -What statement BEST describes the situation of Japanese-Americans in World War II? Most were denied their freedom and sent to “internment camps."