1. Santa Anita Assembly Camp

2. Internment Camps Americans Scared Executive Order 9066
Japanese spies
Traitors
Executive Order 9066
FDR signs February 19, 1942
Army can force Japanese into camps
Japanese Americans
Only bring what they could carry
Less than 1 week to sell everything

3. Japanese Lives Forced to give up lives Property
Ask someone to take care of
If nobody could, had to sell
Not a lot of time, did not get fair value
Restart lives in camps
After camps, forced to restart life again

4. Eating, Work, & Guards Mess halls and bathroom Work
Overcrowded
Not clean
Work
Things to help in camp
War-related materials
(only citizens)
Inmate-Keeper Relations
Big fight: guards take books and plates
Japanese get upset, protests
Turns violent
Military comes

5. Entertainment "Japanita Jive" Sports Other activities
Softball/baseball
Sumo and Judo
Basketball, badminton
and golf
Other activities
Boy Scout troops
PTA
Newspapers and books

6. Schooling No formal education system (concerns)
Taught by volunteer inmate teachers
City/county schools send textbooks
Mass graduation
Classes held in large hall, teachers had to shout

7. Writing Assignment
Write a short paragraph that describes how you think it would be like to live in an internment camp as a Japanese American. Talk about the feelings you have about the camp, the positives and negatives of the camp and whether or not you think it is fair.