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After the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, over 100,000 Japanese-Americans were rounded up by the military and placed in internment camps.
On this week's episode we'll take a closer look at why this happened. We'll learn President Franklin D. Roosevelt's reasons for signing Executive Order 9066, which other countries besides the United States shipped off Japanese people to internment camps, what the camps were like, and when they were finally shut down.
Read more about the Japanese Internment Camps:
history.com/topics/world-war-ii/japanese-american-relocation
archives.gov/education/lessons/japanese-relocation
buzzfeed.com/gabrielsanchez/chilling-pictures-of-life-at-japanese-internment-camps?utm_term=.bmvRawRoK#.yxnvW7v6n
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After the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, over 100,000 Japanese-Americans were rounded up by the military and placed in internment camps.
On this week's episode we'll take a closer look at why this happened. We'll learn President Franklin D. Roosevelt's reasons for signing Executive Order 9066, which other countries besides the United States shipped off Japanese people to internment camps, what the camps were like, and when they were finally shut down.
Read more about the Japanese Internment Camps:
history.com/topics/world-war-ii/japanese-american-relocation
archives.gov/education/lessons/japanese-relocation
buzzfeed.com/gabrielsanchez/chilling-pictures-of-life-at-japanese-internment-camps?utm_term=.bmvRawRoK#.yxnvW7v6n
US 101 on Facebook: facebook.com/usahistory101
US 101 on Twitter: twitter.com/usahistory101
US 101 on Instagram: instagram.com/usahistory101
US 101 on Snapchat: @usahistory101
