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Manzanar and Topaz

Manzanar and Topaz. Japanese Internment Justine Aoki. Overview.

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Manzanar and Topaz

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  1. Manzanar and Topaz Japanese InternmentJustine Aoki

  2. Overview • After the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese, the United States government began to see Japanese Americans as a threat to the country, therefore putting them into internment camps. The government thought most of the Japanese Americans were spies when, in fact, a large majority of them weren’t.

  3. Who? What? • Internment: temporary imprisonment of a certain group of people • Both nisei and issei were put into camps • Nisei: citizens of Japanese decent, born in the United States • Immigrants of Japanese decent http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/japanese-internment-camp-2.jpg

  4. Where? http://drx.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451bdba69e2010535d12a91970c-450wi • Manzanar: • In California • Topaz: • In Utah http://hubtours.org/HUB_Tours/Topaz_files/shapeimage_1.png

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