Japanese Interment Camps In Wwii
Keith Salenski
Jen Stauss
History 201
May 31, 2005
Japanese Internment Camps in WWII
For over a century, the United States has been one of the most powerful and influential states on the globe. However, every nation has made mistakes in its past. Throughout our country’s history, certain groups have had to endure horrible injustices: the enslavement of African-Americans, the removal of Native Americans, and discrimination against immigrants, women, homosexuals, and every other minority. During World War II, the government crossed the line between defending the nation and violating human rights, when it chose to relocate Japanese residents to internment camps. The actions taken by the U.S. government against Japanese Americans and Japanese living in the United States were not justified.
Much of the support for the camps was probably fueled by fear. The attack on Pearl Harbor was unlike anything the United States had ever experienced before, and the events of that day......
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