Japanese Americans

• the usa had always had a large Japanese immigrant population on the west coast
• how many Japanese were interned into camps in 1942?

  120,000
• what was a child of a Japanese immigrant born in the USA called?


  Nisei
• what was a Japanese American born in America called?


  an issei
• how many Japanese Americans immediately volunteered to serve in the armed forces?

  33,000
• The Japanese attack on which harbor in Hawaii created a wave of anti-Japanese feeling in the USA?

  pearl harbour
• They were transported to internment camps in remote parts of the USA. What were they forced to sell at a very low price?

  their properties
• What happened to Italian or German Americans?

  their lives carried on as normal
• How did the Japanese Americans amaze the guards in the camps and show their patriotism to the USA?

  they raised the American flag every morning
• in January 1943, what did the US Congress allow Japanese Americans to do?

  serve in the armed forces
• The all-Nisei infantry units in the US army were among the highly decorated for bravery in the war
• Many American lawyers argued that the governments internment policy went against what?

  the US constitution