After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the American government began to distrust the different races living in the country, especially the Japanese. To make sure nothing happened again, these internment camps were created and they were essentially “American Concentration Camps”. Japanese Americans faced many hardships in these camps. The Japanese internment camps were extremely unfair to the majority of Japanese Americans who did not engage in acts of sabotage or espionage on behalf of Japan during the war. Nonetheless, it was a necessary effort to limit the activities of those who would attempt to harm the United States and the war effort. U.S. military forces sent Japanese Americans to internment camps across the United States because they were afraid there were Japanese American spies. among them. Conditions in the Japanese-American internment camps were very harsh for the Japanese due to the housing, food, and experiences they had on a daily basis. Japanese citizens were given approximately 48 hours to leave their homes and were only allowed to take a few personal items with them. About 120,000 Japanese were transferred to internment camps after Pearl Harbor. Sometimes entire families lived in a single room, in a cell or barracks. Additionally, they were fed about three times a day and the portions were small. Several people died in these camps due to lack of medical care and stress. (Japanese-American Internment." US History, 2014) At first, Japanese Americans went to temporary relocation centers which were open areas surrounded by barbed wire. There were block arrangements and each had 14 barracks. Then they were taken to ten permanent resettlement centers which were managed by War Relocation Authority. They were located in isolated areas such as ...... middle of paper ......rican Internment. , 2009. Web.21 March 2014. http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/suic/ReferenceDetailsPage/ReferenceDetailsWindow?failOverType=&query=&windowstate=normal&contentModules=&mode=view&displayGroupName=Reference&limiter=&currPage=&disableHighlighting=true&displayGroups=&sortBy= &search_within_results=&p=SUIC&action=e&catId=GALE%7CXG VMGS047642054&activityType=&scanId=&documentId =GALE%7CEJ3048400159&source=Bookmark&u=lans23427&jsid=8ac3e91566b7c7f69f15bf2818d20a 83 “Japanese-American Internment.” US History.org, 2014. Web. , 1941." GlobalEvents: Significant Events Throughout History. Ed. Jennifer Stock. Vol.6: North America. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 2013. Student Resources in Context. Internet. March 20. 2014.