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 * What do you believe were the causes of the conflict?**

I Belive that the Japanese where imprisoned not due to the fear of spies, as the U.S. government tells us. No I belive that they were imprisoned because farmers had stirred up anti-japanese belifes so they wouldn't have to deal with the competition of Japanese farmers and from general distain form the public caused by the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The government wasn't trying to reduce the threat of spies, it was responding to a public outcry.

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

It all started on Febuary 19, 1942, when president Franklin D. Rosevelt signed Executive order 9066. The bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese in WW2 not only sparked the United State's involvement in the war, it also alowed the "justification" of imprisioning hundreds of thousands of innocent citizens of the U.S.A. of Japanese decent. The Japanese strike on pearl harbor was an unprovoked assult desinged to knock out the U.S. pacific navy so it wouldn't interfear with the military concwest planned by the Japanese. When F.D.R. signed Executive order 9066 it was election year. By signing the order, he gained the support of the general public.

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

The Attack on Pearl Harbor was probably the leading factor for the imprisonment of the Japanese. The Amaeican government cut of trade with the Japanese, depriving them of the scrap metal and oil that they needed to maintain the war they had gotten themselves into. And finally, farmers wanted them gone so they wouldn't have to deal with the competition.

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

The attack on Pearl harbor is more important than the other factors because it provided the goventment with a way to justify the imprisonment of the Jananese in the country. With out ths factor, the internment would never have happened.

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

Yes it could have. If the U.S. government hadn't cut of trade with the Japanese and stoped providing them with the scrap metal and oil they needed for the wars they were involved in they would never have attacked pearl harbor. With the Pearl Harbor attack nonexistant, no substatchil reason would have existed to imprison so many innocent people.


 * What sources of information have you used? **

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