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World War II: Station Two - Japanese Internment

Internment camps

Station Two: Japanese Internment Camps

What were internment camps?
Why were Japanese Americans sent to these camps?
What was life like for Japanese Americans who lived in the internment camps?

Internment Camps in the USA

Japanese Internment camps (Article from History on the Net)

Against Internment

Japanese American Internment
Type Japanese American Internment in the search bar.

Locations of Relocation Camps

Japanese American soldiers

Military Ceremony on the Kahului Fairgrounds, Maui, Hawaii

Internment

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection, [LC-USF33-013298-M3 DLC]

Japanese in the Military

Letters from Japanese American Soldiers
Military Intelligence Service Language School
Use the primary sources on the right side of the screen.

What was life like for Japanese Americans during World War II?

Internment: WWII and Roundup
What was life like for Japanese Americans before the war? Use the links on the left to find more.
Internment: Perilous Fight: Asian Americans
Letters, diary entries, and photos from Japanese Americans
Internment: PBS: Civil Rights
Soldiers: At War
Soldiers: Unlikely WWII Soldiers Awarded Nation's Highest Honor

Perspectives: For Internment

Japanese American Internment
Korematsu v. United States, 1944
Supreme Court decision upholding the internment order
Executive Order 9066
Order by President Roosevelt to remove Japanese and Japanese Americans into internment camps.
Instructions to All People of Japanese Ancestry

Perspectives: Against Internment

Children of the Camps
Click through this PBS site to find many primary source documents.
Civil Rights of Japanese Americans
Photographs, interviews, newsreels, and interviews with Japanese Americans.
Japanese American Internment
Poem by Japanese American
Transcripts of interviews with Japanese American students

Map of Japanese Internment camps