HISTORY
WORLD WAR II
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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They never did that.
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They feared that Japanese-Americans were a security threat.
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To make Japan “salty".
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They wanted to protect Japanese-Americans.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -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-3: -Shock, fear, and worry were common initial psychological reactions as Japanese Americans were forced to deal with the stress of enforced dislocation and the abandonment of their homes, possessions, and businesses.
Detailed explanation-4: -Motivated by racism after Pearl Harbor bombing. Japanese were seen as a threat to the U.S. citizens, even the Japanese-Americans. In order to keep these suspicious citizens under control, they were relocated to internment camps in order to become “Americanized” under conditions that were not ideal.
Detailed explanation-5: -So it would be correct to say that “about 110, 000 Japanese Americans were forcibly removed from the West Coast” and that “about 120, 000 Japanese Americans were held in American concentration camps administered by the War Relocation Authority during World War II.”