Internment and the Constitution

Internment camps were also known as

Relocation centers

During World War II, the US government sent people of Japanese ancestry to internment camps based on

whether they lived in an exclusion zone.

Who issued Executive Order 9066?

Franklin Roosevelt

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

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

What was the impact of President Roosevelt's approval of Executive Order 9066?

More than 100,000 Japanese Americans were ordered to leave their homes and move to internment camps.

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

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

How did President Truman's Executive Order 9981 show progress toward racial equality?

The order ended segregation in the military.

Who was Fred Korematsu?

an American citizen who lived in California

How did the Navajo serve in World War II?

as code talkers in the Pacific

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

constitutional

In the Supreme Court case Korematsu v. United States, the court decided that the Fourteenth Amendment

could be waived in a time of emergency such as war.

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

did not apply during war time.

Fred Korematsu argued that internment was unconstitutional mainly because internees

did not receive due process.

Which of the following best describes what World War II internees faced when they returned home?

property damage and discrimination

Which of the following best describes one reason that thousands of Japanese Americans voluntarily joined the US military during World War II?

to show their loyalty to the US