HISTORY
WORLD WAR II
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Question
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Japanese-Americans were deported in large numbers for matters of national security.
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Japanese-Americans were forced to enlist into the military and sent to the front lines in Japan.
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Japanese-Americans were placed in internment camps and forced to abandon their homes and businesses.
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Japanese-Americans were blacklisted from potential employment opportunities in war industries on the homefront.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -In an effort to curb potential Japanese espionage, Executive Order 9066 approved the relocation of Japanese-Americans into internment camps. At first, the relocations were completed on a voluntary basis.
Detailed explanation-3: -The order was designed to exclude persons of Japanese ancestry, both American citizens and resident aliens from the West Coast. More than 100, 000 people were ordered to leave their businesses and homes. Voluntary resettlement of the people who were designated disloyal by the War Department was impossible.
Detailed explanation-4: -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. Over 127, 000 United States citizens were imprisoned during World War II.
Detailed explanation-5: -The personal rights, liberties, and freedoms of Japanese Americans were suspended by the United States government. In the “relocation centers", internees were housed in tar-papered army-style barracks. Some individuals who protested their treatment were sent to a special camp at Tule Lake, California.