Mrs. KilpatrickSaint Rose of Lima

Grade 6akilpatrick@syrdiocese.org

Internment of Japanese in the US

During World War II

Step 1 of the AHPPAIdentify the Problem

•A public policy is a government action usually intended to deal with a social problem.

•In the following PowerPoint you will be given information about a social problem in America during World War II.

•Using the AHPPA worksheet, given to you, use the information from the PowerPoint to identify the problem.

Be sure to:

1.State the problem in one or two sentences. Be sure to include the time period.

2. List 3 undesirable social conditions that resulted from this problem. 3. List some themes or concepts that relate to your social problem.4. Write a short phrase that summarizes the social problem and its time period.

World War II

• World War II began on September 1, 1939 when Britain and France declared war on Germany after Germany invaded Poland.

• On December 7th 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. US citizens feared another attack and war hysteria seized the country.

US Action at Home

• State representatives put pressure on President Roosevelt to take action against those of Japanese descent living in the US.

• Under the terms of the Order, some 120,000 people of Japanese descent living in the US were removed from their homes and placed in internment camps.

Notices posted following executive order

On the way to a “War Relocation Camp”

The US justified their action by claiming that there was a danger of

those of Japanese descent spying for the Japanese.

Children

• However more than two thirds of those interned were American citizens and half of them were children.

Signs appeared in neighborhoods.

After the War

• None had ever shown disloyalty to the nation. In some cases family members were separated and put in different camps. During the entire war only ten people were convicted of spying for Japan and these were all Caucasian.