japanese internment

Japanese InternmentBy : Karen Maldonado

• In December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor was Bombed by the Japanese.

• Because of this bombing the Japanese were forced to move into internment camps. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt authorized the internment with Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942, which allowed local military commanders to designate "military areas" as "exclusion zones," from which "any or all persons may be excluded.“

• Life in these camps were complicated. The camps were fenced, and in each fenced camp there were block arrangements. Each block contained 14 barracks, 1 mess hall, and 1 recreational hall on the outside. On the inside was the ironing, laundry, and men and women's lavatories.

• In 1988, Congress passed and President Ronald Reagan signed legislation which apologized for the internment on behalf of the U.S. government The legislation stated that government actions were based on "race prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership". Over $1.6 billion in reparations were later disbursed by the U.S. government to Japanese Americans who had either suffered internment or were heirs of those who had suffered internment.

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