Japanese+Internment+Lesson

=Japanese Internment Camps Lesson Page =  Directions: View the photographs below and on the next 2 pages. The photos are organized by topics: REMOVAL, INTERMENT, and JUSTICE. Respond to each topic on your worksheet.

 REMOVAL - ====//The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 stunned the United States, and became a catalyst for challenging the loyalty of all Japanese people living in the U.S. On February 19, 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 authorizing military authorities to exclude "any and all persons" from designated areas of the country as necessary for national defense. E.O. 9066 was the first step in a program that uprooted Americans of Japanese ancestry from their West Coast communities and placed them under armed guard for up to four years. - from A More Perfect Union, http://americanhistory.si.edu/perfectunion/non-flash/removal_main.html//// ====

//"For thousands of Japanese Americans homeowners and small businessmen, moving out meant selling out quickly at an enormous loss"//
Photograph #1: ===// "Allowed to take only what they could carry, Japanese Americans headed to camps had no room for toys, precious valuables, or even their pets."//=== Photograph #2: // " Conditions in the WCCA assembly centers were unsanitary at best. At Tanforan and Santa Anita, California, internees were housed in stalls that only a week earlier had held horses. Sanitation, food service, and health-care facilities were beneath the lowest U.S. Army standards. Many internees had to stay in assembly centers for several months before being moved to permanent camps." // Photograph #3:

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