1. Japanese Internment Camps - Relocation and Confinement
After the attacks by the Japanese, the government had viewed the Japanese Americans as a threat to the nation's security. ... Also the government had the support from many non-Japanese American Citizens that voiced strong opinions of the Japanese. ... One man justified the government's decision to intern the Japanese saying, "everywhere that the Japanese have attacked to date, the Japanese population has risen to aid the attackers. ... "Japanese Americans lost much of the economic ground they had gained in more than a generation" "(Austin 4). ... All the Japanese had were each other....
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