Japanese American Dbq

"Force is the only language they understand, like bullies" (President Franklin D. Roosevelt). On September 1st, 1939, Germany invaded Poland and officially evoked World War II. Trying to remain neutral, for two years, the United States occasionally sold supplies to England, France, and Russia but did not join the fight. It wasn’t until December 7, 1941 that America had an abrupt and overwhelming change of perspective. Japan attacked a U.S. soil, Navy base, in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, killing 2,300 servicemen, and wounding another 1,100 civilians. The next day, the United States entered the war with clear intentions of making Japan their first stop and unfortunately setting off the chain of events that brought about internment. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Executive Order 9066, forcing all those with Japanese ancestry to be relocated to detention camps. Understandably, this internment of nearly 120,000 Japanese-Americans was, to the government, a matter of national security, but did they have to go to such extremes? When looking back at those that were already living and had families in America, simply incarcerating them due to nationality, was wrong. In fact, the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II became a matter of racial prejudice because of three things. Americans simply no longer wanted any Japanese in America, they feared Japanese would hurt the country, and since Japanese-Americans weren’t wholly American, if they wanted to stay, they should sacrifice themselves for America.

The internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II was a matter of racial prejudice because Japanese-Americans were not wanted. The result of Japanese bombing Pearl Harbor, makes all Japanese people vicious, right? Wrong. Americans did exactly what Hitler was doing. They took innocent people and forced them into concentration camps. In Japs Keep Moving, it shows that “A women pointing to a sign that reads, ‘Japs keep moving. This is a white man’s...