HISTORY
WORLD WAR II
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Question
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Few of those relocated were actually United States’ citizens.
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The Japanese American experience was similar to what happened to German Americans at this time
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt approved the action because he believed Japanese Americans were a military threat.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Japanese American relocation program had significant consequences. Camp residents lost some $400 million in property during their incarceration. Congress provided $38 million in reparations in 1948 and forty years later paid an additional $20, 000 to each surviving individual who had been detained in the camps.
Detailed explanation-2: -Conditions at Japanese American internment camps were spare, without many amenities. The camps were ringed with barbed-wire fences and patrolled by armed guards, and there were isolated cases of internees being killed. Generally, however, camps were run humanely.
Detailed explanation-3: -Before the War One of the most vexing was the denial of naturalization rights, eliminating one of the standard avenues by which immigrants had been able to protect their rights. As early as the Spanish American War, some Japanese immigrants volunteered for military service as an avenue to gaining citizenship.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.