Introduction
On December 7, 1941, the Japanese attacked the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor. This shock the nation and plunged the United States into the depths of WWII. In the following months, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt created internment camps on the west side of the country to hold the Japanese Americans. They were considered to be a "threat" to the American way of life; most of them were American citizens. The human rights of property and liberty were taken away from thousands of American citizens. Overall, there were ten camps that were created and functioned through the surrender of the Japanese to end the Second World War. The reason for this was that it was a "pressing, public necessity." The point is that even though the camps did not kill millions of people, they were still a violation of human rights. Even the most free nation in the world experienced human rights violations.
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