Treatment of Internment Camps -Internment camps- relocation and detainment of Japanese Americans from West Coast during WW2 -Issei – Americans of Japanese birth -Nissei – children of Japanese born parents who were sent to internment camps (mostly survived) -Japanese Americans suffered a lot more than any other aliens in USA did -12/7/1941- Pearl Harbor in Hawaii was bombed by Japanese natives -  US citizens began to feel threatened by Japan and Japanese Americans LD

-Japanese Americans had always been loyal to USA and stood behind FDR with decisions -Immigrant Japanese had been coming to USA for better lives & were good workers - “yellow flood’ of Chinese immigrants in the 1870’s where they took many jobs from Americans for lower wages which angered them -They were feared during war that they’d turn their backs on USA -They had strict cultures and greatly obedient LD

Germany and Italy also disliked for their beliefs of Nazism and Fascism Germans had been a potential threat from military to their control There were over 11,000 Germans alone brought into the Internment camps When they were taken from their homes, their belongings were broken and taken About 2,000 Germans and German Americans were taken and held by The Third Reich in Germany LD

-FDR signs Executive Order – 2/19/1942 – power to define military areas where people may be excluded as necessary/desirable -over 110,000 were relocated into camps with their families – named by a number -Most of the 110,000 were infants, young kids and adults Many that were in the internment camps didn’t understand why Japanese American Citizens League – limited membership to its people and stressed importance of Americanization and shortened ties with Japan Japanese Americans in CA, OR, WA, AZ – sent to relocation camps – rights to vote taken, lost jobs LD

4 years later after the Executive Order was signed, FDR destroyed it and camps were finally closed after government gave reparations to Japanese Americans for property they had lost awarded formal payments of $20,000 each to the surviving internees LD

Tule Lake and Manzanar – northern Cali – cramped camps with uncomfortable areas, families in small spaces, bad facilities for cooking/bathing LD

“We’ve always been told that we are the ‘Quiet Americans’. We think a lot in our own mind, but we don’t say it with our words, because we don’t like to make too many waves” – internee, Martha Yoshioka “I know many… who say, that was all so long ago. Let’s forget it and leave well enough alone. But I just say, we were the ones that went through it – the tears and the shame and the shock. We need to leave our legacy to our children. And also our legacy to America, from our tears, what we learned.” – Internee, Mary Tsukamoto LD

health problems included psychological anguish and cardiovascular disease Internees of the camps went through trauma constantly over: - loss of culture and habits - low self esteem - pressure to follow along - disobedience of parents LD