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 * What is your //general// belief about who or what is most responsible for causing the conflict?**

I believe the Americans were responsible because they kind of over-reacted after Pearl Harbor. They just started walking around and taking Japanese-American families from their homes. Parents, children, just any innocent child was taken away from their homes because they might be spies. They took childrien from all ages, from 10 months old, to 13 years. Childiren that old cant be spies. America over-reacted way too much.

**What is the relevant background information (i.e. who, what, when, where)?**

There were loads of people involved in the Japanese internment, but i cant name them one by one, but I can say that the Americans, Japanese, and Japanese-Americans involved in this conflict. The Conflict was that the Americans thought that the Japanese-Americans were spies after Pearl Harbor.It took place in 1942-1980. The conflict was taken place in U.S.A.

**What were 3 factors that helped cause the conflict (politics, economics, geography, history)?**

One was Pearl Harbor, when the Japanese bombed Hawaii. Another was that the Americans decide to take the Japanese American families from their homes and put them in internment camps because the Americans thought they might be spies. The third one is, all of WWII. The Japanese were fighting against the war and the Americans.

**Explain why one factor is more important than the others.**

WWII is probably the most important factor, because many people died and were taken prisoner in WWII. There was just a large all out war against the Nazis and the Japanese. Obviously, basically the whole world was involved.

**How could the conflict have been avoided?**

We could have just made shure there wern't any japanese getting into any important american stuff. Maybe we could have just not hired them for any jobs that the americans wouldnt want the japanese to see or touch. We could have done that instead of taking every Japanese, every parent and child, and put them in internment camps for many years.


 * What sources of information have you used? **

www.bookmice.com www.momomedia.com www.historylink.org