CRE 151 Japanese Internment Camps: America’s Great Mistake
Japanese Internment Camps: America’s Great Mistake 1. President D. Roosevelt declared Japan’s bombing of Pearl Harber a Date that will live in infamy -dec. 7, 1941. 2. Feb. 19, 1942, Roosevelt ordered the mass removal from the West Coast of all persons deemed a threat to national security a. Order 9066 applied exclusively to American Japanese =120,000 b. Ordered from their homes -70% were American citizens c. Took months d. FBI detained 1,000 German and Italian Immigrants and 1,200 prominent Japanese Americans = suspected enemy aliens e. Most lived on the West Coast or in U.S. territory of Hawaii. f. Nisei second-generation Japanese Americans g. Some were in serving in the Military -peremptorily discharged h. Selective Service stopped accepting Japanese Americans trying to enlist i. But after the Military realized the need for Japanese speakers in the ranks and the need for trained combat personnel..they shipped most Nis