Japanese Internment Camp

Question 1

Discrimination

Answer 1

Discrimination is unfair treatment of a person or group based on their identity (race, religion, culture, gender, etc.), such as in job, school, work, justice-wanted issues, etc.

Question 2

Prejudice

Answer 2

Negative attitudes towards a particular group based on their identity.

Question 3

Japanese Internment Camp

Answer 3

They were the places the Japanese people were put into because they thought they could be spies for Japan (even little kids as well). These camps were like prison, with barbed wire fencing around it, little to no privacy, and not good living conditions.

Question 4

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Answer 4

He was the president of the United States that was elected 4 terms, declared war on Japan, and the president during the Great Depression and WWII.

Question 5

Attack on Pearl Harbor

Answer 5

It was on December 7th, 1941. It was issued by Japan, to attack Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Western U.S. After this, the U.S. treated all Japanese Americans terribly wrong, and put them into camps because they thought they might be spies for Japan.

Question 6

Bias

Answer 6

Negative thoughts or ideas about, or against a certain group based on differences, real or imagined, without any factual basis. Prejudice is an example.

Question 7

Scapegoating

Answer 7

The act of blaming an entire group for the actions of one or a few others.