Which statement about the treatment of Japanese Americans during World War II is correct? A. The U.S. government denied Japanese Americans their basic constitutional rights by sending them to internment camps. B. The secretary of war decided that Japanese Americans posed no threat to national security. C. President Roosevelt refused to allow Japanese Americans to serve in the U.S. military during the war. D. U.S. courts convicted dozens of Japanese Americans of spying for Japan during the war.
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No, I found the answer on answer.com Since the Japanese had an Imperial Army at war for decades to expand their empire, and a strong military culture controlled the country, America was in fear of Japanese-American traitors. All Japanese American citizens on the west coast of the US were locked up in internment camps (guarded living facilities in remote inland areas). Their businesses and homes were taken away and they were isolated until the end of the war. There were camps in Colorado, Oklahoma, and other militarily unimportant areas. The exceptions were the young men who volunteered for the army, who were sent to serve in a segregated unit fighting in Europe.
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