The attack on Pearl Harbor also launched a rash of fear about national security, especially on the West Coast. In February 1942, just two months later, President Roosevelt, as commander-in-chief, issued Executive Order 9066 that resulted in the internment of Japanese Americans.
Q. What was one reason the Nuremberg trials following World War II were held?
Held for the purpose of bringing Nazi war criminals to justice, the Nuremberg trials were a series of 13 trials carried out in Nuremberg, Germany, between 1945 and 1949.
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- Q. What was one reason the Nuremberg trials following World War II were held?
- Q. What did the Cash and Carry Act and Lend-Lease Act allowed the United States to do?
- Q. What did they do to the Japanese in the internment camps?
- Q. Did Japanese internment camps have schools?
- Q. Did America have Japanese concentration camps?
- Q. Why were there no German internment camps?
- Q. Why are there so many Japanese living in Hawaii?
- Q. Did Hawaii belong to Japan?
Q. What did the Cash and Carry Act and Lend-Lease Act allowed the United States to do?
Before passage of the Neutrality Act of 1939, Roosevelt persuaded Congress to allow the sale of military supplies to allies like France and Britain on a “cash-and-carry” basis: They had to pay cash for American-made supplies, and then transport the supplies on their own ships.
Q. What did they do to the Japanese in the internment camps?
The camps were surrounded by barbed-wire fences patrolled by armed guards who had instructions to shoot anyone who tried to leave. Although there were a few isolated incidents of internees’ being shot and killed, as well as more numerous examples of preventable suffering, the camps generally were run humanely.
Q. Did Japanese internment camps have schools?
Many internment camps had multiple schools to educate the numerous children detained there. Often entire blocks of barracks were converted for grade school classrooms, but they were ‘prison-esque’ blocks that contained few windows.
Q. Did America have Japanese concentration camps?
The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II was the forced relocation and incarceration in concentration camps in the western interior of the country of about 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry, most of whom lived on the Pacific Coast.
Q. Why were there no German internment camps?
The large number of German Americans of recent connection to Germany, and their resulting political and economical influence, have been considered the reason they were spared large-scale relocation and internment.
Q. Why are there so many Japanese living in Hawaii?
The first 153 Japanese immigrants arrived in Hawaii on February 8, 1885, as contract laborers for the sugarcane and pineapple plantations. Many more Japanese immigrants came to Hawaii in the following years. Most of these migrants came from southern Japan (Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Kumamoto, etc.)
Q. Did Hawaii belong to Japan?
The government of Japan organized and gave special protection to its people, who comprised about 25 percent of the Hawaiian population by 1896. This government agreed on behalf of Hawaii to join the US in 1898 as the Territory of Hawaii. In 1959, the islands became the state of Hawaii of the United States.
