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

I believe the causes of the conflict was the general pubic, mostly. They had been against Japanese since people started immagrating to the "Oregon Country" as people called it when they first moved. They were against them because they were competing with the Japanese for jobs and labor( Lambert, Dale and Clark, Dustin). After the bomb on Pearl Harbor the public was in a frenzie against them (Lambert, Dale, and Clark, Dustin). Frank Knox, the Secretary of The Navy implied that there was Japanese spies living in America, helping the others atack us (-Dale A. Lambert, and Dustin W. Clark). There was also alot of media support going to this cause. And not to mention that, of coarse, that the Japanese had just atacked Pearl Harbor in Hawii.

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

Well, I think the people who were involved were the Japanese/ people of Japanese Ancestry and us or President Roosevelt. The conflict was that people of one eighth Japanese ancectry ( and sometimes others, who weren't even of Japanese ancesrty ) were being relocated to internment camps ( Lambert, Dale and Clark, Dustin). This order, order 9066, took place on February 19, 1992. People from the west coast of America ( in Washington, Oregon, and California ) were being relocated to internment camps more toward the middle of the country, like Arizona.

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

The factors from economics was that America had stopped trading with Japan, the recources they needed. In addition, we were competing with people of Japanese decent for jobs in the country. Because the Japanese didn't have oil where they were, they were going to steal it from the East Indies and Southeast Asia, so we were trying to stop them ( Villanueva, Ricco and Ross, Samuel). This was part of the second world war, and we fought with Japan in the first world war. President Roosevelt made the internment camps mainly becuase the government thought that there could be Japanese spies working for Japan in America. A civics factor would be that at the time Americans were very biased against Japanese and immagrants in general.

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

I think that the factor of alot of American public being so against immagrants and Japanese at the time was the most important. I think that because, If people weren't so biased and better at accepting people who are different back then, then they wouldn't have suspected them right away in the first place and would be more willing and open.

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

There are a number of ways. One, I think is that Americans, the public, and media could have been less biased and have not have cause so much negative inflouence on how people saw and judged the Japanese. Another, is that the Japanese could have not attacked us in the first place, or we could have given them the oil they wanted.


 * What sources of information have you used? **

[] Villanueva, Ricco and Ross, Samuel. "Japanese Relocation Centers." __Infoplease.__ 2007 __infoplease.com__ []

Roosevelt, Franklin. "Executive Order 9066; The President Authorizes Japanese Relocation.: __History matters__ . February 21, 1942. History Matters. 5/28/09. .

Lambert, Dale and Clark, Dustin. __Washington, A State of Contrasts__ East Wenatchee, Washington: Directed Media Inc., 2008