Japanese American Incarceration during WWII 5Ws and H
Storyboard Description
Answer who, what, when, where, why, and how for the Japanese American incarceration during World War 2
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- HOW did this affect Japanese Americans?
- We've lost everything. Where will we go? How will we start over?
- WHO ordered it?
- Executive Order 9066Signed, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- WHAT was ordered and WHO did it target?
- 120,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated during the war. Negative psychological effects from the trauma were common such as shock, fear, anxiety, mistrust, as well as the stress of forced removal and abandonment of homes, businesses, and possessions.
- On February 19, 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066. It authorized the government to remove people "deemed a military threat" from the West Coast and Arizona and force them onto concentration camps where they would stay for the duration of the war.
- It targeted Japanese Americans and in smaller numbers, German and Italian Americans. They were given only a few days to sell their homes and businesses, allowed only one suitcase, and forced to uninsulated cabins surrounded by barbed wire, search lights, and guards with machine guns.
- WHY was it ordered?
- December. 7, 1941Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor FDR: "A date which will live in infamy."
- 5 Ws & H: JAPANESE AMERICAN INCARCERATION IN WWII
- WHERE were people incarcerated?
- WHEN did it occur?
- 1942-1945
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- It was ordered three months after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. The hysteria was fueled by decades of anti-Asian racism and policies. Anyone of Japanese descent was seen as an enemy, even those who had lived in the U.S. for decades or their whole lives.
- There were dozens of facilities used for detention and processing and 10 major incarceration camps at Tule Lake, California; Manzanar, California; Poston, Arizona; Topaz, Utah; Minidoka, Idaho; Heart Mountain, Wyoming; Granada, Colorado; Jerome, Arkansas; and Rohwer, Arkansas.
- From 1942 until the end of the war in 1945, it was the policy of the U.S. government that people of Japanese descent would be incarcerated in camps throughout the midwest and west.
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