Internment and the Constitution

Question 1

Why did the US government think internment camps were necessary during World War II?

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to protect national security

Question 2

Why were Japanese Americans living on the West Coast interned after the Pearl Harbor attack?

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Many people feared the presence of Japanese spies after Japan had attacked Pearl Harbor.

Question 3

During World War II, how did the policy of internment affect people of Japanese descent in the United States?

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They were forced to relocate to assembly centers.

Question 4

What pivotal event led the United States to enter World War II?

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Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor

Question 5

Which is one advantage of using Navajo as a military code language?

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Since few people understood it, it was a difficult code to break.

Question 6

Who issued Executive Order 9066?

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Franklin Roosevelt

Question 7

During World War II, the government argued that it should be able to waive the Fourteenth Amendment, claiming

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certain groups could be excluded from this protection.

Question 8

In Korematsu v. US (1944), the Supreme Court ruled that in a time of great “emergency and peril,” the internment of Japanese Americans was

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constitutional

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