1. Japanese Internment Camps By: Jennifer Reyes and Jessica Juarez

2. Background of The Japanese Internment Camps The Japanese frightened the Americans because some people thought that they could be spies for Japan since they had bombed Pearl Harbor not so long ago, so they made the internment camps and put them in there. This all begin in the west part of the U.S. in 1942. Americans just didn’t want Japanese people roaming around because they could be given information to the government in Japan.

3. Historical Background The internment camps prevented the Japanese people from communicating with the outside world which made the Americans feel safer. A daily life in an internment camp would be like waiting in line to use the bathroom, getting food, and other things. They lived in a small little house with lots of people from multiple families. The Japanese people live there were locked in a barbed wire fence so that they couldn’t escape.

4. More Background Historical Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944 ordered the camps to be closed, and by 1945 the camps were finally closed down. The Japanese were affected by these events and activities because they were taken away from their homes and most important part that their freedom was taken away from them. Their were still able to play sports like baseball and other things and they were still with their families.

5. Historical Information The Japanese Internment Camps were important to World War II because after the atomic bomb in Pearl Harbor happened, many Japanese Americans were sent to those camps and taken away their normal life. Inside the internment camps people had to face hard ship; boys would sometimes play many different sports on their free time. But they still lived surround by barb wire. The internments camps were located in deserts so the temperature became unbearable. The summer degrees were at 100 degrees usually and in the winter the temperature are negative 30 degrees.

6. Reason that our Exhibit should be in the Museum It shows the important details about Japanese internment camps. It also shows the facts needed for this important section. I also believe that this should be in the museum is because the internment camps played an important role in history.

7. Reasons Our exhibit should be in the museum I think our exhibit should be in the museum is because you will learn many different things. I also think this because many people don’t know much about internment camps and what happened inside them. I also think that this would be a amazing thing to know for your history class and more.

8. Explanations for our exhibit for being in the museum Because it is important for Americans to know what happened during this time, a lot of people didn’t know this occurred. Another reason behind putting our exhibit is because it would be interesting to learn about something that happened and the reasoning behind it.

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