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Writing Assignment 10

Writing Assignment 10

Q Writing Assignment 10 • Points 4 • Submitting a file upload In the textbook read chapter 24 and the government's primary source letters in Canvas and answer the following: Considering the times, were the Japanese internment camps justified? Why? Why not? Explain your reasoning. Make sure you cite the two primary source documents in the textbook, background information, and at least one of the letters in Canvas. Write at least 250 words, not including the citations and quotations. Use Turabian/Chicago style footnotes.

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As per one of the primary source documents, The FBI detained approximately 1200 Japanese foreigners around the country after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor . In a letter by J. Edgar Hoover, he can be seen referring to the Japanese as “aliens” . The military advisors believed that the relocation of Japanese people living in the United States was a necessity in order to avoid spying. Along with the Japanese, both the Germans and the Italians faced the same fate. During World War 2, thirty thousand Japanese Americans fought for the US forces and their freedom.