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Why did the US create the Japanese internment camps - Coggle Diagram
Why did the US create the Japanese internment camps
Economic
Japanese grew 40% of California's production
So, Americans thought they were taking their jobs away
Americans wanted all the jobs for themselves
Homeland security
To "prevent" domestic sabotage and Japanese spies
There was no prove
John DeWitt believed that the civilian population needed to be taken control of to prevent a repeat of Pearl Harbor.
Japanese Internment camps to "protect" them
President Roosevelt
To "protect" his country
Political leadership on power
President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 to prevent espionage on American shores.
Roosevelt’s executive order forcibly removed Americans of Japanese ancestry from their homes.
Hw was presented of information and based of this he presented the Order, an dthe information was false. He did not verify the report
He wanted the people to be anti-japanese, they viewed the Americans as cowards and lazy and weak. Roosevelt knew this and tried to describe the Japanese as scary and make them look like enemies and too powerful in order to drive the Americans to fight the war.
Racism
Only arresting Japanese instead of Germans and Italians
Discrimination of all Japanese previous to Pearl Harbor
Assuming that all Japanese are traitors
Enhanced by Pearl Harbor
After much organizational chaos, about 15,000 Japanese Americans willingly moved out of prohibited areas. Inland state citizens were not keen for new Japanese American residents, and they were met with racist resistance.