Background information
How did we get to this point in the war?
After Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, the U.S. believed that there might be spies in America. Placing Japanese people in camps wouldn't allow them to communicate with Japan. That was the thought anyways. Executive Order 9066 or the "Japanese Internment Order" was originally for security zones where the military had control. It was no secret that the camps were meant for Japanese and Japanese-Americans. It was also no secret that Roosevelt was and had been suspicious of the Japanese population for several years.
basic information
who?
Japanese and Japanese-Americans were being placed into internment camps where U.S. military officials had control. President Roosevelt issued the Order.
what?
Two months after the bombing at Pearl Harbor President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 which placed more than 110,000 Japanese in the U.S. into internment camps. The reasons given were mainly, "national security". Many families left their whole lives behind. Most camps looked like prisons while the prisoners inside worked to make the best form of a community that they could. Later on in 1988 President Reagan signed the Civil Liberties Act to compensate money to survivors of the camp.
where?
There were internment camps in California, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Wyoming,Colorado, and Arkansas.
when?
Order 9066 was implemented two months after the bombings at Pearl Harbor. The executive order was repealed on January 2, 1945.
why?
Internment camps were created because the U.S. believed that there were Japanese spies in America after the bombings at Pearl Harbor.
What is the importance of each topic to wwII and to modern day?
Many people believe that Japanese internment was a racist act more that anything else. This affects modern day so much because we are still today having problems with racism today. It is in the news pretty much all of the time. I think America is a nation to learn from the past and considering America has apologized for whole ordeal (America never really apologizes for anything), we should learned from this mistake and now know not to do this same thing in the future. This impacted the war at the time because Japan was having an impressive string of victories. This caused America to be very paranoid, and many Americans felt that their Japanese neighbors might be spies. A lot of people believed this throughout the war even though it was obvious Japan was loosing the war.