1. Analyze the following photos

2. Analyze the following photos

3. Women and Minorities during WWII
Japanese Internment

4. Video – First Hand Account

5. Primary Source Annotation
Read “Final Report: Japanese Evacuation from the West Coast”
Annotate and Answer the questions.

6. Background
December 7, United States attacked at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii by the Japanese Navy.
This act of aggression forced the United States into military intervention in World War II.
Japan was a military enemy of the United States during World War II.

7. Following Pearl Harbor
just hours after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the FBI rounded-up 1,291 Japanese community and religious leaders, arresting them without evidence and freezing their assets.
Transferred to facilities in Montana, New Mexico and North Dakota without notification of their families.
FBI searched the private homes of thousands of Japanese residents on the West Coast, seizing items considered contraband.

8. Executive Order 9066
Intended to limit espionage by Japanese-Americans.
Military zones were created in California, Washington and Oregon—states with a large population of Japanese Americans—and Roosevelt’s executive order commanded the relocation of Americans of Japanese ancestry.

9. Reasoning
“The time to stop taking chances with Japanese aliens and Japanese-Americans has come While Americans have an innate distaste for stringent measures, every one must realize this is a total war, that there are no Americans running loose in Japan or Germany or Italy and there is absolutely no sense in this country running even the slightest risk of a major disaster from enemy groups within the nation”
~Atlanta Consistution, February 20th, 1942

10. Citizens Rounded Up
American Army officers rounded up Japanese Families, placed them on trains and sent them to internment camps across the USA.
Camps were fenced in, and guarded by the US Army.
All inhabitants were considered enemy combatants.

11. Inhabitants given loyalty questioneer
Included following questions…
Question 27: Are you willing to serve in the armed forces of the United States on combat duty, wherever ordered?
Question 28: Will you swear unqualified allegiances to the United States of America and faithfully defend the United States from any and all attack by foreign or domestic forces, and forswear any form of allegiance or obedience to the Japanese emperor, or other foreign government, power or organization?

12. Ended by the Supreme Court
 Korematsu v. United States,
Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to end the use of detainment of ethnic groups without just cause.

13. Aftermath
Many internees lost irreplaceable personal property due to restrictions that prohibited them from taking more than they could carry into the camps.
These losses were compounded by theft and destruction of items placed in governmental storage. 
Many families were left with nothing.