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Japanese Internment and the Code Talkers Tuesday/Wednesday March 27-28. Vocab: Executive Order 9066 Navajo Code Talkers. Japanese Internment After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Americans were terrified that Japanese people living in America were a threat to the American way of life.
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Japanese Internment and the Code TalkersTuesday/Wednesday March 27-28 Vocab: Executive Order 9066 Navajo Code Talkers
Japanese Internment • After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Americans were terrified that Japanese people living in America were a threat to the American way of life. • FDR issued the Executive Order 9066 in 1942 • Ordered all people of Japanese descent living in California, Washington, Oregon and Arizona to relocate. • Some 300 Italians and Germans were also interned • Two-thirds of the 110,000 affected were American citizens • This forced relocation and confinement to camps was called internment. • These camps were located in the desert with barbed wire and armed guards • Poor facilities, healthcare and education
Code talkers • The US used hundreds of Native Americans from the Navajo nation to translate military messages into a coded version of the Navajo language. • The Navajo language was unwritten, and so complicated that the Japanese were never able to break it.
