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Essential Questionsfor “Camp Harmony”
by Monica Sone
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Are there rights and freedoms that all human beings – regardless of
citizenship – should have? Is so, what are they?
1.
What freedoms and rights were taken away when those of Japanese
ancestry were pressured to leave their homes and live in internment camps?
1.
What generalizations can be made regarding the treatment of Japanese
Americans during WWII?
1.
In regard to the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII, did the
American government respond appropriately? What makes you say that?
WWII comes to the U.S.
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On December 7, 1941,
the United States military
bases on the island of
Oahu were attacked by
the Japanese.
On December 8, the US
declared war on Japan.
There were more than
275,000 people of
Japanese ancestry, both
citizens and non-citizens,
living in the U.S. at that
time; half lived in Hawaii.
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Essential Question: What freedoms and rights were taken away when those of
Japanese ancestry were pressured to leave their homes and live in internment
camps? (consider what you’ve learned in U.S. History)
Background Information
Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 not only resulted in
the United States’ entrance into World War II, but led to the incarceration,
imprisonment, of innocent people based on ancestry.
Within hours after the bombing of Pearl Harbor at Hawaii, FBI agents,
many without evidence or search warrants, went house to house and
rounded up 1,212 Japanese in the U.S. mainland and Hawaiian islands.
Most of those arrested were prominent leaders in Japanese communities.
They included priests, teachers in language schools, officers of
community organizations, and newspaper editors. All of them were taken
to unknown destinations and treated as prisoners of war.
Japs Keep Moving
Interrupted Lives for Japanese Americansclick on image
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• MASA HAITO'S sharp eyes and steady nerves helped him defeat 129
other pitchers in the Seattle Times-Park Board baseball contest. His
twelve strikeouts in the competition at Collins Playground earned him
the right to compete for the district championship in late May 1942. But
Masa Haito did not pitch in the finals, and five of the top ten honor
students in the senior class at Broadway High School did not attend
their graduation ceremony. They all had been "evacuated" with their
families to camps in the interior -- a security precaution as the United
States went to war with Japan.
• The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941 drastically
altered opportunities for thousands of Japanese Americans along the
Pacific coast. Overnight, many who had called America home for
nearly half a century became "enemy aliens" with their life work in
jeopardy.
Japanese Americans moved to internment camps.
Location of internment camps
train
arrival
Boy scouts
Boys in camp
EQ: What generalizations can be made regarding the treatment of Japanese
Americans during WWII?
Camp Harmony
•Ethnic Japanese residents of
the Pacific Northwest lined up
outside of Camp Harmony
internment camp near Puyallup,
Washington, 1942.
•Camp Harmony, at the Puyallup
fairgrounds, was a temporary
detention center for Japanese
"evacuees" on their way to camps
farther inland.
Internees pick up firewood to heat their barracks-style living quarters,
1942. Photo Credit: Seattle Times.
A tower for the "consolation of souls"
was erected in the cemetery at the
Manzanar internment camp in 1943.
120,000 Japanese Americans living in
the "military zone" along the Pacific
coast of the United States, were sent to
internment centers throughout the
western part of the country following the
bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941.
Internment followed on over a half
century of discriminatory immigration
and land ownership laws against Asians
in general and Japanese immigrants
specifically. It represents the degree
to which racial and cultural
intolerance can be carried when
mixed with the fear and hysteria of
war. It was not formally recognized in
the national conscience with an apology
and reparations (monetary
compensation) until nearly a half
century after the war's conclusion.
EQ: What freedoms and rights were taken away when those of Japanese ancestry
were pressured to leave their homes and live in internment camps?
EQ: In regard to the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII, did the
American government respond appropriately? What makes you say that?
Japanese American Internment: U.S. Government propaganda video
Essential Questionsfor “Camp Harmony”
by Monica Sone
1.
Are there rights and freedoms that all human beings – regardless of
citizenship – should have? Is so, what are they?
1.
What freedoms and rights were taken away when those of Japanese
ancestry were pressured to leave their homes and live in internment camps?
1.
What generalizations can be made regarding the treatment of Japanese
Americans during WWII?
1.
In regard to the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII, did the
American government respond appropriately? What makes you say that?
Web Sites to Explore
Infoplease sponsors this site of general internment camp information that is set up
in a question and answer format – very user friendly.
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/internment1.html
Maps, statistics, photos, general information and activities can be found at this
comprehensive site. I challenge you to do the internment crossword puzzle to test
your knowledge.
http://historyonthenet.com/WW2/japan_internment_camps.htm
This site provides information about Camp Harmony specifically.