Japanese Internment Camps: Background Info

Japanese internment camps mainly rose as a result of Japan’s military attack on Pearl Harbor. For the remainder of WWII, Japanese citizens residing in America were forced to leave their homes and live in specified areas of exclusion with their families and other members of the same race. Mistrust of Japanese people by the rest of America rapidly came into play, and the hysteria that followed relates to that of the Salem Witch Trials.