what american group was placed in internment camps?
After Pearl Harbor (the attack) the US gâ¦overnment believed that spies played a part in the attack (as they actually did). And fearing more attacks the Government sent Japanese Americans to camps called internment camps. This was nothing like concentration camps in WW2, these camps were built to keep them from passing on information to the Japanese Government and military.
In 1980, U. S. President Jimmy Carter signed legislation to create the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC). The CWRIC was appointed to conduct an official governmental study of Executive Order 9066, related wartime orders, and their impact on Japanese Americans in the West and Alaska Natives in the Pribilof Islands.