Japanese American Internment Camps
by Lisa Hayman
Introduction · Questions · Web Resources · The Big Question · Conclusion · Rubric · Guide
Introduction · Questions · Web Resources · The Big Question · Conclusion · Rubric · Guide
Introduction
The internment of Japanese Americans across the United States of America after the bombing of Pearl Harbour provides us with a lesson on citizenship and human rights.
What does citizenship mean and when is it appropriate to 'relocate' citizens?
Questions
- Explain the impact which the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbour in 1941 had.
- Examine the intent of the USA government in establishing internment camps.
- Provide reasons for why the internment camps would have been located where they were.
- How has the USA government attempted to redress the treatment of Japanese Americans during World War Two?
- Extension Activity - What similarities exist between the issues of the USA's treatment of Japanese Americans in WW II and Australia's treatment of the 'Lost Generation'. Explain how you think governments should address contoversial issues in history.
Web Resources Links
- Relocation of Japanese American
- Of Civil Rights and Wrongs
- Fred Korematsu was probably never more American than when he resisted, and then challenged in court, the forced internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.
- Images of Pearl Harbour
- 2000-11-09 Memorandum on Japanese American Internment Sites
- Internment of San Francisco Japanese
- Final Report; Japanese Evacuation from the West Coast 1942.
- Japanese American Internment Memorial
- Pearl Harbor
The Big Question
History is a study of the past but it also links strongly to our present and future. Do recent world events indicate that we have learnt to place a higher value on the rights of citizens than those in America during WW2?
Conclusion
Identify five other questions you have in relation to this period of History. Consider how you can explain the actions of the American government at this time to ancestors of relatives who were interned.
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