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Impact of WWII on Japanese Americans

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 which forced over 11,000 Japanese families living on the West Coast to relocate to internment camps across the United States out of fears they could be spies. The Supreme Court supported the order, though the camps were closed by 1945 and the US government later apologized and paid reparations for interning Japanese Americans without cause during World War II.

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Impact of WWII on Japanese Americans

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 which forced over 11,000 Japanese families living on the West Coast to relocate to internment camps across the United States out of fears they could be spies. The Supreme Court supported the order, though the camps were closed by 1945 and the US government later apologized and paid reparations for interning Japanese Americans without cause during World War II.

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Japanese

Interments Camps

BY ALEJANDRO GUTIERREZ
Attack on Pearl Harbor
What Consequences did Pearl
Harbor have on Japanese
Americans.
Many people were afraid that Japanese Americans that lived on
the West Coast might be acting as spies helping Japan attack the
U.S.
Government Action

On February 19, 1942, President Roosevelt issued Executive Order


9066. This forced Japanese Americans to move from their homes to
internment camps.
11,000 Japanese
families had to sell
their homes and
businesses to relocate
to 10 different camps
around the United
States.
FDR considered the relocation legal under constitutional powers
granted to the president during times of war. The Supreme Court
supported this claim in the case of Korematsu vs. U.S.
Later, this was overturned and all camps were closed by early 1945.
Apology

In 1988, the U.S.


government
apologized to
Japanese Americans
for these internment
camps and paid all
internees $20,000.

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