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Chapter 20

Chapter 20. America & World War II (1941-1945). FACTMONSTER.COM. Almanac World War The United States at War World War II Small Quiz . Japanese Relocation Centers.

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Chapter 20

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  1. Chapter 20 America & World War II (1941-1945)

  2. FACTMONSTER.COM Almanac World War The United States at War World War II Small Quiz 

  3. Japanese Relocation Centers On February 19, 1942, soon after the beginning of World War II, Franklin D. Roosevelt Executive Order 9066. The evacuation order commenced the round-up of 120,000 Americans of Japanese heritage to one of 10 internment camps– officially called “relocation centers”– in California, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Wyoming, Colorado, & Arkansas.

  4. Why were they established? Roosevelt’s executive order was fueled by anti-Japanese sentiment among farmers who competed against Japanese labor, politicians who sided with anti-Japanese constituencies, and the general public, whose frenzy was heightened by the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor. More than two-thirds of the Japanese who were interned in the spring of 1942 were citizens of the United States.

  5. Location of the Camps Type http://www.historyonthenet.com/WW2/japan_internment_camps.htminto your browser to see a map  How did war hysteria prompt the government’s actions? How did the bombing of Pearl Harbor change the lives of the Japanese Americans now because they “looked like the enemy”?

  6. Conditions in the U.S. Camps The U.S. internment camps were overcrowded and provided poor living conditions. The barracks were bare minimum constructions without plumbing or cooking facilities of any kind. Coal was hard to come by, and internees slept under as many blankets as they were alloted. Food was rationed out at an expense of 48 cents per internee, and served by fellow internees in a mess hall of 250-300 people.

  7. Closure of the Camps • In 1944, two & a half years after signing Executive Order 9066, fourth-term President Franklin D. Roosevelt rescinded the order. • In 1968, nearly two dozen years after the camps were closed, the government began reparations to Japanese Americans for property they had lost. In 1988, the U.S Congress passed legislation which awarded formal payments of $20,000 each to the surviving internees– 60,000 in all.

  8. Propaganda Type http://archive.org/details/Japanese1943 into you browser & watch the short propaganda film made by the U.S. government about Japanese Internment Camps. Take out a sheet of paper and answer the following question: • What were some of the reasons for internment offered in the newsreel? • How does the newsreel portray internment? Is it positive or negative? • Who do you think the audience was for this newsreel?

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