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Look at these documents then answer the question. What happened to the Japanese and Japanese-Americans living in the United States during World War II?

Look at these documents then answer the question. What happened to the Japanese and Japanese-Americans living in the United States during World War II?

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Look at these documents then answer the question. What happened to the Japanese and Japanese-Americans living in the United States during World War II? Provide evidence and explain how the evidence you listed supports your claim.
Document 1 No charges had been filed against these people nor had any hearing been held. Evacuation was on a Racial, or, perhaps more accurately, on ancestral grounds. It was the 'largest single forced migration in American History...' The responsibility of the Military was tremendous; the spectacular victories of Japan, the crippling of our fleet at Pearl Harbor, the possibility of invasion of our west coast-all were facts of tragic import, and at the time, were considered more than ample justification of the mass exodus. In addition, there was the threat of public retaliation against the Japanese-American population. We may feel that racial antagonisms fanned the flame of decision, that political pressures were of no little consequence in supporting the military action.
Transcribed Image Text:Document 1 No charges had been filed against these people nor had any hearing been held. Evacuation was on a Racial, or, perhaps more accurately, on ancestral grounds. It was the 'largest single forced migration in American History...' The responsibility of the Military was tremendous; the spectacular victories of Japan, the crippling of our fleet at Pearl Harbor, the possibility of invasion of our west coast-all were facts of tragic import, and at the time, were considered more than ample justification of the mass exodus. In addition, there was the threat of public retaliation against the Japanese-American population. We may feel that racial antagonisms fanned the flame of decision, that political pressures were of no little consequence in supporting the military action.
against the Japanese-American population. We may feel that racial antagonisms fanned the flame of decision, that political pressures were of no little consequence in supporting the military action. In the light of retrospection and true evaluation the evacuation may have been unnecessary, but the fact remains that we, as a nation, were in the most potentially precarious moment of our history-stunned, seriously hurt, unorganized for actual war... Born free and equal, photographs of the loyal Japanese Americans at Manzanar Relocation Center, Inyo County, California, Ansel Adams. 1944
Transcribed Image Text:against the Japanese-American population. We may feel that racial antagonisms fanned the flame of decision, that political pressures were of no little consequence in supporting the military action. In the light of retrospection and true evaluation the evacuation may have been unnecessary, but the fact remains that we, as a nation, were in the most potentially precarious moment of our history-stunned, seriously hurt, unorganized for actual war... Born free and equal, photographs of the loyal Japanese Americans at Manzanar Relocation Center, Inyo County, California, Ansel Adams. 1944
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