Japanese-American treatment during World War II

In the U.S., discrimination occurred everywhere with nearly everyone. It was not limited to just blacks but also to women and immigrants. As a result of the incident at Pearl Harbor, discrimination toward Japanese- Americans greatly increased. Other citizens blamed them for what Japanese militarists had done and began to suspect they might be helping the enemy across the Pacific. Franklin D. Roosevelt was pressured to remove them from coastal states and excused it under national security even though there was no evidence of disloyalty. The Japanese-Americans were forced to sell their homes and businesses on short notice at sacrifice prices. Then, they were confined in camps and treated by army guards as if they were dangerous. The government finally began releasing them after the 1944 election.