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After the attack made by Japan on Pearl Harbor, Japanese Americans were no longer seen as trustworthy. Even if they had no remaining ties to their ancestral country, Americans were afraid they may be working with Japan to attempt another attack somewhere on U.S. soil. "The relocation of Japanese-Americans into internment camps during World War II was one of the most flagrant violations of civil liberties in American history."
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DiscriminationJapanese Americans were greatly distrusted and discriminated against after the Pearl Harbor attack. People were afraid they would somehow try to disrupt the war effort.
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The WRA & relocationThe Wartime Relocation Agency was created to move nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans to internment camps as part of a wartime necessity. They were forced to sell their homes, businesses, and had to relocate to a camp, where they were kept until it was certain the U.S. would win the war.
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