Japanese Internment:
When America got involved in WWII, after the Pearl Harbor attack, many Americans feared all people with Japanese ancestry. This lead President Franklin D. Roosevelt to sign an executive order in February, 1942, to contain all Japanese-Americans in American concentration camps.
Even the Japanese who would be the most beneficial. This included Japanese-Americans who were decorated WWI veterans and also Japanese Americans who had never even as much seen just part of Japan.
The Japanese-Americans lived under rough conditions after they had sold their houses and everything they had. Of course the Japanese-Americans did not suffer as bad as Jews and political enemies of Hitler. Still the Japanese internment is a dark park of U.S. History, and made the U.S. government decide to pay the survivors in 1988 $20,000. To see how big the support and sympathy was, Fred Korematsu went against Supreme Court. This showed that most Americans did not care, and saw it as a wartime necessity.
When America got involved in WWII, after the Pearl Harbor attack, many Americans feared all people with Japanese ancestry. This lead President Franklin D. Roosevelt to sign an executive order in February, 1942, to contain all Japanese-Americans in American concentration camps.
Even the Japanese who would be the most beneficial. This included Japanese-Americans who were decorated WWI veterans and also Japanese Americans who had never even as much seen just part of Japan.
The Japanese-Americans lived under rough conditions after they had sold their houses and everything they had. Of course the Japanese-Americans did not suffer as bad as Jews and political enemies of Hitler. Still the Japanese internment is a dark park of U.S. History, and made the U.S. government decide to pay the survivors in 1988 $20,000. To see how big the support and sympathy was, Fred Korematsu went against Supreme Court. This showed that most Americans did not care, and saw it as a wartime necessity.