1. Japanese Internment Camps
It all started to get worse for the Japanese Americans when the Japanese ambushed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. ... They arrested anyone of Japanese descent. ... It wasn't until two months later that the government gave the order (called Executive Order 9066) to remove all Japanese families on the West Coast and place them in concentration camps. 2 For the women Issei the situation was very hard to endure. ... The government had no legal right to keep her from returning home to California because she was a "loyal citizen." 4 This case and others like it led to the closure of the cam...
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