internment camp

Examples of internment camp in the following topics:

• Internment of Japanese Americans

  • Japanese-American internment was the relocation and internment by the United States Government in 1942 of about 110,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese living along the Pacific coast of the United States to camps called "War Relocation Camps."
  • This power was used to declare that all people of Japanese ancestry were excluded from the entire Pacific coast, including all of California and much of Oregon, Washington, and Arizona, except for those in internment camps.
  • While this event is most commonly called the internment of Japanese Americans, the government operated several different types of camps holding Japanese Americans.
  • German American internment and Italian American internment camps also existed, sometimes sharing facilities with the Japanese Americans.
  • The spartan facilities of the camps met international laws, but still left much to be desired.

• Attack on Pearl Harbor

  • One of the most controversial consequences of the attack was the creation of internment camps for Japanese American residents and citizens.
  • Within hours of the attack, hundreds of Japanese American leaders were rounded up and brought to high-security camps such as Sand Island at the mouth of Honolulu harbor and Kilauea Military Camp on the island of Hawaii. 
  • Over 110,000 Japanese Americans, including United States citizens, were removed from their homes and transferred to internment camps in California, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arkansas, and Texas.

• The Holocaust

  • Holocaust scholars draw a distinction between extermination camps and concentration camps.
  • Historian Yehuda Bauer argues that "the basic motivation [of the Holocaust] was purely ideological, rooted in an illusionary world of Nazi imagination, where an international Jewish conspiracy to control the world was opposed to a parallel Aryan quest."
  • Instead, the ghettos' inhabitants were sent to extermination camps.
  • At this time, as the Soviet armed forces approached, the camps in eastern Poland were closed down, any surviving inmates being shipped west to camps closer to Germany.
  • Local commanders continued to kill Jews, and to shuttle them from camp to camp by forced "death marches" until the last weeks of the war.

• Outdoor Recreation

  • Bicycle riding, camping, baseball, and public parks grew in prominence during the late nineteenth century.
  • The application of the internal-combustion engine to the bicycle during the 1890s resulted in the motorcycle, and then soon after, the engine was applied to 4-wheel carriages resulting in the motor car or "automobile" which in later decades largely supplanted its unmotorized ancestor.
  • Later he embarked on a cycling and camping tour with some friends across Ireland.
  • His book on his Ireland experience, Cycle and Camp in Connemara led to the formation of the first camping group in 1901, the Association of Cycle Campers, later to become the Camping and Caravanning Club.
  • By the 1960s camping had become an established family holiday standard and today camp sites are ubiquitous across Europe and North America.

• Frontier Revivals

  • In the newly settled frontier regions, the revivals of the Second Great Awakening took the form of camp meetings.
  • The camp meeting was a religious service of several days' length involving multiple preachers.
  • Settlers in thinly populated areas would gather at the camp meeting for fellowship.
  • One of the early camp meetings took place in July 1800 at Gasper River Church in southwestern Kentucky.
  • Camp meetings were multi-day affairs with multiple preachers, often attracting thousands of worshippers.

• The Nuremberg Trials

  • Political authority for Germany had been transferred to the Allied Control Council which, having sovereign power over Germany, could choose to punish violations of international law and the laws of war.
  • The pictures had been gathered when the inmates were liberated from the concentration camps.
  • The Tribunal is celebrated for establishing that "[c]rimes against international law are committed by men, not by abstract entities, and only by punishing individuals who commit such crimes can the provisions of international law be enforced."
  • The Nuremberg Trials initiated a movement for the prompt establishment of a permanent international criminal court.
  • The creation of the IMT was followed by trials of lesser Nazi officials and the trials of Nazi doctors, who performed experiments on people in prison camps.

• The Camp David Accords

  • The Camp David Accords were part of the Middle East peace process through comprehensive, multi-lateral negotiations.
  • The Camp David Accords were the result of 18 months of intense diplomatic efforts by Egypt, Israel, and the United States that began after Jimmy Carter became President.
  • The Camp David Accords were signed by Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on September 17, 1978, following thirteen days of secret negotiations at Camp David.
  • There were two 1978 Camp David agreements: A Framework for Peace in the Middle East and A Framework for the Conclusion of a Peace Treaty between Egypt and Israel, the second leading towards the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty signed in March 1979.
  • Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian president Anwar Sadat with U.S. president Jimmy Carter at Camp David in 1978.

• Nixon and the Economy

  • Meanwhile, European countries began leaving the Bretton Woods international financial system, which had based the value of foreign currencies on the value of the gold-backed dollar.
  • With inflation unresolved by August of 1971 and an election year looming, however, Nixon convened a summit of his economic advisers at Camp David.
  • The move had momentous consequences for the system of international financial exchange, and in turn, other nation's economies.
  • Because Nixon made the decision without consulting any interested foreign parties, the international community deemed the new American policies the "Nixon Shock."
  • These policies essentially ended the Bretton Woods system of international financial exchange, which had been in place since the end of World War II.

• The Obama Administration

  • His major policy initiatives have included changes in tax policies, legislation to reform the United States health care industry, foreign policy initiatives, and the phasing out of the detention of prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba.
  • In October of 2009, Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."
  • Obama declared his plan for ending the Iraq War on February 27, 2009 in a speech at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina before an audience of Marines stationed there.

• The Anti-German Crusade

  • Anti-German hysteria in the U.S. during World War I led to restrictions on speaking German and internment.
  • In early September, Congress passed a bill requiring all German-language newspapers published in the United States to print English translations of any commentary about U.S. government policies and international relations or the state or conduct of the war.
  • Internees were held at two camps splitting the eastern and western United States along the Mississippi River: Fort Oglethorpe in Georgia and Fort Douglas in Utah.
  • Illustrate how anti-German fervor played out in the forced registration, internment, and oppression of German-Americans.