Transcript WWII and the Home Front

WWII and Japanese Internment
Modern American History
Korematsu decision
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Why was Korematsu detained?
What role did race play in this decision?
What role did time play in the decision?
“Concentration camp”???
Japanese Internment
• Executive Order 9066
– Signed by FDR February 1942
– Internment begins March 1942
• Ten camps located in remote desert areas
– Businesses, homes, possessions sold at fraction of
worth, bring what they can carry
– Wooden barracks, partial walls, family shares one
room, communal toilets, bathing facilities in full
view of sentries, armed guards and barbed wire
Japanese Internment
• Over 120,000 of
Japanese descent
forcibly relocated
into concentration
camps
• Both people born in
Japan (1/3) and U.S.
citizens (2/3)
Left: Aerial Photo of Granada
Center from the Water Tower Granada Relocation Center,
Amache, Colorado. Photo by Joe
McClelland , 6/20/1943
Below: Poston Relocation Center
Reflection Paragraph
• Based on the precedent set in the Hirabayashi &
Korematsu decisions as well as these images, answer
the following questions
– In general, should Americans be expected to have their
basic civil liberties taken away in order to protect the
nation from a possible threat?
– In the case of internment, were the actions justified or did
the U.S. government go too far?
– Should security pay extra attention today to people who
appear to be “Middle Eastern/Muslim”?