USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM 1890 1919

THE UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR I

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which wartime policy toward Japanese Americans was upheld by the Supreme Court in its 1944 ruling in Korematsu v. United States?
A
deportation to Japan
B
mandatory military service
C
denial of voting rights
D
confinement in internment camps
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Korematsu asked the Supreme Court of the United States to hear his case. On December 18, 1944, a divided Supreme Court ruled, in a 6-3 decision, that the detention was a “military necessity” not based on race.

Detailed explanation-2: -In December 1944, the Supreme Court handed down one of its most controversial decisions, which upheld the constitutionality of internment camps during World War II. Today, the Korematsu v. United States decision has been rebuked but was only finally overturned in 2018.

Detailed explanation-3: -Korematsu v. United States (1944) | PBS. In Korematsu v. United States, the Supreme Court held that the wartime internment of American citizens of Japanese descent was constitutional.

Detailed explanation-4: -United States, 323 U.S. 214 (1944), was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States to uphold the exclusion of Japanese Americans from the West Coast Military Area during World War II.

Detailed explanation-5: -The majority found that the Executive Order did not show racial prejudice but rather responded to the strategic imperative of keeping the U.S. and particularly the West Coast (the region nearest Japan) secure from invasion. The Court relied heavily on a 1943 decision, Hirabayashi v.

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