Japanese Internment Camps
"Imagine that one day you received notice that you and your whole family must be ready to move within 48 hours. You could take only the possessions you could carry and no one would tell you when you would be permitted to return home. Sound like a bad dream? This happened to over 100,000 United States citizens and legal residents during World War II. Your job is to find out why." ~ Martha Daly On February 19, 1942, President Roosevelt signed Order 9066 establishing the "War Relocation Authority" This order started plans of 10 internment camps where more that 110,000 Japanese Americans would be relocated .
When the United States decided to take all Japanese-Americans and relocate them into internment camps, it was not a pretty picture; people were taken from the places, things, and people they loved in life. These actions, labeled America's Concentration Camps, have often been compared and contrasted with the Nazi's Camps. |
Propaganda Posters
These posters among others show how the American government sought to demonize and dehumanise Japanese people during WW2. They tell the people that they under threat, from whom and what to do about it.