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At the time, the United States and Japan was at war with each other, so Japanese citizens were viewed as spies and traitors. So the public made false accusations about the Japanese citizens, so the President and the Secretary of War created a place to hold them.

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When the Japanese struck Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga was a senior at Los Angeles High School. She remembers the day the following spring that her principal took the Japanese students aside and said, "You're not getting your diplomas because your people bombed Pearl Harbor." The Yoshinaga family was sent to the Santa Anita, Calif., detention center, and later to Jerome, Ark. The families eventually created room dividers out of sheets and began making a life in the Manzanar War Relocation Center. The Civil Liberties Act of 1988 was signed by President Ronald Reagan, It awarded victims and their families $20,000 and, perhaps more importantly, an apology. At 92, Herzig-Yoshinaga now lives in Los Angeles. She says she worries now, when she hears people talk about creating a registry for all Muslims in the United States.

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Many of the Japanese citizens were taken from the West Coast of the United States and were then placed in camps set in remote and barren parts of the United States.

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Executive order 9066 was passed in 1942. Although, the United States finally, officially apology for their acts in 1942.

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Internment camps were created because President Roosevelt issued Executive order 9066, which allowed the Secretary of War to created controlled zones. So soon after the pearl harbor event, American citizens who were of Japanese decent were contained.

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A controlled area where people that are viewed as dangerous or harmful to other are held.