Was the treatment of Japanese Americans during WWII a setback for democracy?

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Was the treatment of Japanese Americans during
WWII a setback for democracy?
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Pearl Harbor

• December 7, 1941183 Japanese airplanes bombed
  U.S. Naval and Air force base
• Killed over 3,000 Americans
• Destroyed almost all U.S. airplanes at base
• Sank or badly hurt most U.S. ships
• Many Americans questioned the loyalty of Japanese
  Americans

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Japanese Loyalty

• FEW people felt that Italian-Americans and
  German-Americans were traitors
• MANY people felt that Japanese-Americans were
  still loyal to the government in Tokyo
• May act like spies
• Help Japan invade the U.S.

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FDR

• No evidence of disloyalty of Japanese-Americans
  existed
• FDR Signs Executive Order 9066
• Japanese-Americans move from their home to
  relocation camps
• Many were American citizens by birth

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Japanese Interment Camps

• U.S. made no distinction between Japanese
  immigrants and Japanese-Americans born in the
  U.S.
• All were deported
• 110,000 Japanese-Americans were forced to sell
  their homes, farms, and businesses
• Conditions
• Crowded barracks
• Barbed wire
• Guarded by the army
• Freedom taken away

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Korematsu v. United States
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Korematsu v. United States

• Korematsu refused to obey wartime order to leave
  his home and go to an interment camp
• Arrested and found guilty
• Appealed to Supreme Court
• VIOLATION
• 14th amendment the right to be treated equally
  like other citizens, no discrimination.
• 5th amendment Arrested without a reason.

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Supreme Courts Decision

• The internment of Japanese Americans was legal
  because it posed a potential threat to the United
  States.
• Clear and Present Danger
• Societys security is in danger
• Suspends individual freedoms for the protection
  of society as a whole