Japanese Internment and the Code Talkers Tuesday/Wednesday March 27-28 Vocab: Executive Order 9066 Navajo Code Talkers

Japanese Internment After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Americans were terrified that Japanese people living in America were a threat to the American way of life. FDR issued the Executive Order 9066 in 1942 Ordered all people of Japanese descent living in California, Washington, Oregon and Arizona to relocate. Some 300 Italians and Germans were also interned Two-thirds of the 110,000 affected were American citizens This forced relocation and confinement to camps was called internment. These camps were located in the desert with barbed wire and armed guards Poor facilities, healthcare and education

Code talkers The US used hundreds of Native Americans from the Navajo nation to translate military messages into a coded version of the Navajo language. The Navajo language was unwritten, and so complicated that the Japanese were never able to break it.