Japanese Internment Camps

Cause

• Attack on Pearl Harbor
• The U.S. declared war on Japan

Overview

• “The camps represented a prison: no freedom, no privacy, no ‘America’.” -Mine Okubo

Effects

• Japanese Claims Act
• President Reagan apologized

So What?

• Racist
• Innocent people were put in camps
• Nazis and Jews

Sources

• "Pearl Harbor." History.com. A&E Television Networks, n.d. Web. 11 May 2015.
• Boundless. “Internment of Japanese Americans.” Boundless U.S. History. Boundless, 14 Nov. 2014. Retrieved 11 May. 2015
• "Japanese-American Internment." Ushistory.org. Independence Hall Association, n.d. Web. 11 May 2015.
• "Living Conditions of Japanese American Internment Camps." Period 3's LA Wiki /. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 May 2015.

pictures

• "Did the United States Put Its Own Citizens in Concentration Camps during WWII? - HowStuffWorks." HowStuffWorks. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 May 2015. "Internment of Japanese Americans." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 14 May 2015.
• "Internment Camps Constitutional - HowStuffWorks." HowStuffWorks. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 May 2015.
• "Prisoner Citizens: The Story of Japanese Internment Camps." Top Secret Writers. N.p., 06 Feb. 2012. Web. 14 May 2015.
• "Northwest Antiwar History: Chapter 2." Antiwar History: WWII. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 May 2015.
• "Attack on Pearl Harbor." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 14 May 2015.