3. The beginning of U.S. involvement in WW2 and Japanese Internment Camps

While the U.S. resisted entry into World War 2, Japan forced the hand of the United States with the bombing of Pearl Harbour, no longer could they sit idly by while Europe was burning in the flames of war.  With this direct attack on American soil, the U.S. was forced to strike back, but along with their entry into the war came an intense distrust of Japanese Americans due to their cultural link to the Japanese homeland.  Governmental propaganda built up prejudice against 127,000 Japanese Americans.  On February 19, 1942 President Roosevelt set up a program of internment to defend the perceived threat of the Japanese American people.  These Americans who happened to be of Japanese descent were rounded up by the military and relocated to secluded areas with no freedom to prevent these dangerous American citizens from aiding Japan in a possible invasion of America. This atrocious violation of American rights carried on from 1941 to 1946 containing 31,275 against their will without just cause. 

Pictured above are the barracks in which Japanese Americans were confined to in an internment camp in Amache, Colorado.