The Japanese encampment during WWII was the relocation of thousands of Japanese Americans to internment camps. This happened after the U.S. was attacked by Japan on December 7, 1942 at Pearl Harbor. The war encampment was done unequally throughout the United States. About 110,000 Americans living on the west coast were put into camps, while only about 1,200 people from Hawaii were put in the camps, and over 62% of them were citizens. President Franklin D. Roosevelt passed a law that stated the military could establish an authorized personnel only area and used that to exclude all of the Japanese Americans from living on the west coast.
There were a total of ten of these camps and FDR called them concentration camps. The camps were surrounded by barbed wire and armed guards. When being put into these camps the people were taken from their homes and sometimes split up. Most of the deaths in these camps were from lack of medical care or armed guards shot them.
In 2007, the government tried to make amends for it by giving out $20,000 to each survivor.
I think that under the circumstances this was the worst thing to have been done. I think this because what they were doing could be similar to what was being done in Europe by the Germans. I believe that as a country we could have come up with a better solution.
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